Republic of the Philippines

Western Philippines University

A STRONG PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Name: Hersan P. Cainong Date: March 15,2023

FISH 101 MARICULTURE

Laboratory Activity 1: Mariculture Facilities

Instruction: List and describe structures, equipment, supplies/materials, and management routines involved in the
operation of marine hatchery, fish pond and fish cage facilities. On-site photographs may be included.

A. Hatchery
-There were two different hatcheries in ISRS, the existing and expansion hatchery. Along with them is the
milkfish broadstock tank.

Milkfish Broadstock tank

-it has a water pomp and pipe in order to got some water that is under go of filtration process in filter
tanks and transferred to the milkfish broad stock tank, where they change at least 50% of total water
volume of the tank every day. (Water in is filtered, water free out). They also have net cover, aeration
system, egg collector (a net attached at improvised pipe and attached to aeration for 24 hours after
bobbling).
Existing Hatchery
-Existing hatchery has a power house (where Gen. set, water pump and aeration engines are placed), it
also has a pipe from water source (sea water) connected to the filtration tank (with 200tons carrying
capacity and composition of sand, pebbles, molders, charcoal and gravels) before going to the reservoir
tanks that supply almost all tanks and marine species cultured. Next stop is the algal tank (3x4- carrying
capacity with 12 tons) and rotifer tank (3x2- carrying capacity with 6 tons) the rotifer tanks are sometime
served as the larval tanks for fish larval stage, larval rearing tanks (3x3x1-carrying capacity with 10 tons),
those tanks has aeration system (air stone, air cack, hose, pipes). the harvesting process on this hatchery
are not the same to the other one, in this area they have a pipe connecting the tanks into the harvesting
hole or drainage, where the net is catching the cultured fish species and place in to a clean and aerated
basin or fiber tanks.
Expansion Hatchery
-Expansion hatchery has a power house (where Gen. set aeration engines are placed, the water supply is
transferred here trough container), algal tank (3x4- carrying capacity with 12 tons) and rotifer tank (3x2-
carrying capacity with 6 tons) the rotifer tanks are sometime serve as the larval tanks for fish larval stage,
those tanks has aeration system (air stone, air cack, hose, pipes) the harvesting process in this area is
trough sud-sud (scissors net) and placed into a clean and aerated basin or fiber tanks.
-The equipment’s in these two hatcheries are almost the same such as; Fiber tanks, concrete tanks, basin,
tab, container, aeration system, brush, siphoning pipe, filter bag (with various sizes), nets (scissors for
expansion, square net for existing hatchery used in harvesting fish), pipes, baker. And chemicals
(ammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, urea)

B. Fish pond
-In fish pond management routines, from the start of preparation of the pond for restocking or culturing
fish in the pond, the management will prepare the pond by cleaning the vicinity of the pond at the same
time the pond undergoes some various water parameters testing and substrate preparation (from
detoxification up to ready for restocking). On going of culturing, the management will monitor the water
parameters of the pond every day, feed the fish, monitor the dikes and gates, monitor the water volume in
the pond, monitor the tidal condition (high, low) to inline the changing of water in the pond. The main
gate must have a scoop net and hapa net for cleaning and prevention for possible predators.
-Fishpond structure, the structures of the pond is design for multi species culture. Where, having a wide
compartment with concrete to semi concrete dikes and gates.
-The equipment that always used hare is the refractometer (used in water salinity monitoring), calendar
among others (tide monitoring), measuring equipment, cleaning equipment (pond vicinity) with the
supply of feeds (for fish food).
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C. Fish cage
-Fish cage have 8 compartment with 5x5x5 length and width and depth. In these compartments 4 are
functionals, those compartment has a total capacity of 150 individuals, those tanks accommodate 4
different species such as Red snapper, Green grouper, lapung baboy(grouper) and Asian seabass. They
have also 2 circular cages for bangus broad stock development.
-The feeding process for the broad stock in square cage is every other day, while for the bangus they feed
it every day. They change the net of cage every 3months (for maintenance)
-The equipment they use there are; nets, ropes or lines, floaters, googles and fins (for diving). They also
have motorized boat for transportation.

Photo Documentation

Hatchery

Milkfish Broadstock Tank

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A STRONG PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Fish pond

Fish Cage
 Republic of the Philippines
Western Philippines University
A STRONG PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Name: Hersan P. Cainong Date: March 15, 2023

FISH 101 MARICULTURE

Laboratory Activity 2: Mariculture Organisms

Instruction: List and describe the culture organisms and the corresponding culture routine for each life stage in the
marine hatchery, fish pond and fish cage system. On-site photographs may be included.

D. Hatchery
Milkfish Broadstock tanks
- In the milkfish broodstock tank there are 90 milkfish broodstock with the ratio of 1:2 (1 male, 2 female)
with 7-8 kilos each with the average of 12.6 kilos of fish feeds per day, and three times a day. Changing
50% of water every day, and monitoring the bobbling time for fish egg harvesting.
Hatchery
-In hatchery, the cultured organisms at that time are green algae, rotifer and artemia.
Green algae are a group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms that include species with haplobiontic
and diplobiontic life cycles. In culturing it has 5 phases, such as; induction phase, exponential phase,
declining phase, stationary phase, date phase. The culture period of this organism is 4-5 day old ready to
harvest and be feed to rotifer. The daily routine of the manager is to secure that the aeration is working
accordingly, clean and prevent any contamination of other organisms. (From the start proper calculation
of chemical content is needed for a better outcome) and they produced 4-15 tons per tanks.

Rotifer (Brachionus spp.) are extensively used as first feed in marine larviculture. They are quite small
(50 μm–2 mm) microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. The culture process is 4
daysf. They feed the rotifer by green algae and they monitor the aeration system clean and prevent any
kind of contamination specially to green algae tanks.

Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp, used as a rapidly growing food
source for farm fish, mollusks, and shrimp. The eggs are collected in bulk from salt lakes and shipped dry
to aquaculture farms. The eggs can be stored dry until needed and then easily hatched in bulk as live food.
The daily routine of the manager from the start till the end is to monitor the aeration and make sure to
prevent any kind of contamination and clean the area, the culture process is from day 1-21 good for fish
fry consumption but for bangus fry the age of it is must be 15-21 specifically.
-Note that on hatchery the manager is preventing cross contamination or any kind contamination, because
one wrong move the culture process will be affected and that is very crucial in self-producing hatchery,
that’s why they don’t do a rotation or man service rotation (every personnel most stick to there duty or
post all trough out the culture process.

E. Fish pond
-At that time, the cultured fish species in the pond is the sea bass and red snapper. The culture routine that
been discussed to us is the water salinity or parameter monitoring, tidal monitoring (releasing and
restocking of water), feeding, cleaning the pond vicinity and dikes/gate monitoring every day or at least
trice a week. The main gate must have a scoop net and hapa net for cleaning and prevention for possible
predators.

Note. In fish pond culture in this area is just for a short period of time only, because at this time they are
preparing for restocking and for broad stock purposes, where sea bass and red snapper will be transferred
in to fish cage. But for production purposes, the cultured species stay from 32-35 day old up to the
desired size of fish before harvesting.
F. Fish cage
-The cultured organisms there are; Seabass, Lapung baboy(grouper), Green grouper, red snapper cultured
in square cage, bangus for circular cage. The feeding routine for those organisms except bangus is every
other day eating ½ of their total weight, while bangus is every day and eating also ½ of their total weight.
Note that these organisms are broad stock or for production purposes (bangus at that stage are develop for
broad stocking).
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Western Philippines University
A STRONG PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Photo Documentation

Hatchery
 Republic of the Philippines
Western Philippines University
A STRONG PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Milkfish Broadstock Tank

Fish pond

Fish cage