Farming Features of African Bonytongue Fish Heterotis niloticus in Cameroon, Central Africa - Open Journal of Animal Sciences

OJAS > Vol.13 No.2, April 2023

Open Journal of Animal Sciences

Volume 13, Issue 2 (April 2023)

ISSN Print: 2161-7597 ISSN Online: 2161-7627

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Farming Features of African Bonytongue Fish Heterotis niloticus in Cameroon, Central Africa ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojas.2023.132017 105 Downloads 827 Views

Author(s)

Jeanne Wikondi^1*, Ema Patrick Jolly Ngono¹, Algrient Towa Nana², Felix Meutchieye³, Minette Eyango Tabi Tomedi⁴

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Genetics and Biostatistics, School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, The University of Ngaoundere, Ngaoundere, Cameroon.
²Applied Hydrobiology and Ichthyology Research Unit, The University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon.
³Department of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Research Unit, The University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon.
⁴Institute of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences of the University of Douala, Douala-Bassa, Cameroon.

ABSTRACT

The characterization of African bonytongue Heterotis niloticus fish farming was conducted in the Bi-modal agro-ecological zone of Cameroon from January to May 2021, Thirty-two fish farmers were interviewed and SPSS 6.2 Version was used to analyse the data. The results showed that the majority of fish farmers (81%) are men above 51 years, all of whom are Christians with more than fifty percent of them married. About 43% of them have university level education, and more than 6% of them considered the farming of Heterotis niloticus as their main income-earning activity. The main objective of Heterotis niloticus farming is sales (50%) and the uses (56%) of waged labour. A majority of the farmers produced reared African bonytongue in a polyculture system and 65% of them raised Heterotis niloticus in derivation ponds.

KEYWORDS

Aquaculture, Characterization, African Bonytongue, Cameroon, Central Africa

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Wikondi, J. , Jolly Ngono, E. , Nana, A. , Meutchieye, F. and Tabi Tomedi, M. (2023) Farming Features of African Bonytongue Fish Heterotis niloticus in Cameroon, Central Africa. Open Journal of Animal Sciences, 13, 232-248. doi: 10.4236/ojas.2023.132017.

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