jamaican tilapia fish farmers gets a rare deal from the manufacturers
of tilapia fish food stay tuned okay so this is not really around but this is just a practical
situation in which i feel that it's more prudent for me to share
um meaning that i have been looking at tilapia uh fish farming for the past college two months
or near two months right uh today i share insight into you know whole tilapia fish farming uh
business in jamaica is being affected by um you know the fee quality that exists in jamaica but
jamaica is a small country it has um you could say it measures about roughly about 250 250 kilometers
right in length right and about uh less than half of that in width uh jamaica have roughly
about 1500 yeah 1500 large farms large tilapia fish farmers and um you know you have super large
fish farms you know farms that have like eighty ninety pounds i'm talking about one one one ear
kapon you have to a few um tilapia fish farmers that has um like 50 40 to 30 pounds some have
70 some of 80 right so even along the fish farming um you know group uh i would say family in jamaica
you will have different tiers now each tier each each group each set of tilapia fish farmers they
have their mechanism of actually getting feed uh for their fish stock all right the more affluent
influential financially you know independent um tilapia fish farmers um are able to import uh
better quality tilapia fish feed from overseas currently there are two uh manufacturers
of feed in jamaica right one is nutri mix and one is is it nutri mix yeah you see the words on the
screen and one is hyper right one is located in uh right at the border between climbing on and
saint catching i think it's insane catching but it's it's just right on the border right a few
yards away from the border of of clarendon and one is located along the the shoreline of um of
kingston right in front of kingston harbor right both industry both board board yeah feed producing
industry currently produces substandard tilapia fish feed for you know local tilapia fish farmers
i mean i say substandard i'm not taking any word from anybody but i i have actually over
the past couple of weeks i have been testing and i've been doing a lot of work with regards to um
you know wheat and and all that and what i found is that feed that has been sold on the
market to you know small farmer fish farmers like myself um the quality is just not there i
mean like it's going to feed into the water and if the fish don't get the same temperature and
it sinks and when it sinks it actually wraps away um depreciating the quality of the water
the field is not allowed to float on the water and because it's not allowed to
float on the water the fish um not going to dive and take up the feed from after
aft of the substrate after of the of the pond and if you know tilapia um you know
secret species they are surface swimmers they love the surface so alluding you might have
some ponds that are four feet five feet in d in depth right but anything that touches the surface
a fish farm and should be looked at as a business
right and not as a means of you know um whenever it's available it's available
uh the larger remember i shared that over 1500 persons in jamaica actually farm um
tilapia you know as food fish you know commercially you have some small fish farmers that
that do exist they would buy like four or five dozen um you know fries fingerlings from rada
care for them and when they reach um food size they would actually chew their retreat
um you know sellers on the road right and you have persons who would practically
have their own bootstrap um you know don't business with brother as to how they sell them
because you know as i shared with you before um rather fingerlings uh mono6 um they are
um actually sex reverse so you only have means right okay so i'm kind of going off
on a tangent here that the main emphasis is on feed right um but what i'm saying is that
the tilapia fish farm farming business in jamaica is is getting a real deal the quality feed that
chickens actually get to feed you know you know as food so that they grow and grow healthy the
fire always that of of of the fish feed i think a little bit more science is needed
so as to actually design or create um tilapia fish food that allows the tilapia
food fish to be healthy grow quick you know and at the same time they actually
do not risk it it doesn't run the risk of actually getting the fish sick not to say that the fish
feed is bad there's nothing wrong with the fish feed right as far as you know what it
what it's supposed to be doing feeding the fish fish get big fish is sold as food but as far as
as far as i'm talking about um the floating the floating aspect the density of the fish for you
um that's it's unacceptable and what this does it actually um decreases the volume of fish
that is output i should i say that is produced and um sold to the market because
you can have ten thousand fries place them into a pond and at the same time uh because
of the quality of feed you only actually gets to sell roughly four thousand five
or because you know as i said before the feed is not caught by the fish as it is thrown in the pond
you find that you know it it's just that's just it it's done until i put a fish feed
is just not the best quality we talk about um tilapia fish farming in
in um in puerto rico united states of america in um sections of africa
there's there's a vast difference the quality of field and all that is available to the fish
farmers is of a higher standard than not exists in jamaica yes we have um tilapia
farmers group that actually discuss these matters but um i guess the smaller groups are unable to
buy a container of fish feed um per month because that would cost roughly millions of dollars right
and the the smaller fish farmers would have to depend on these two companies as i mentioned
before nutrimixon um and hypo for their field and their field is actually stifling
the growth of the smaller fish farmers um you know
you know growth go to it right it's stifling them because they're not able to produce as
much because you know with the whole water situation parameters do not want it to get twisted
all right it should be getting twisted right that i am against nutrimix and hypo in there
in their whole production of tilapia fish feed it's good to see that jamaica have industries that
actually can actually try to be you know on the ball as far as tilapia fish farming is concerned
you know and as to what what is is is is on the market right you know tilapia fish farming started
from 1976 and um you know we have come a long way right however i think that the the industry
as it is right now need to evolve a little bit more as far as it the quality of food fish farm
um food fish farm um the feeding use on food fish farm right um i think more need to be done
and where possible some incentives need to be created by the ministry of agriculture in
jamaica so as to foster um you know creativity you know a new design a news formula that can
actually enhance the the production of uh or the creation of a fish food that is considered um
you know up to par can be compared to others on the worldwide or should i say on the international
scene thank you very much for watching i i hope that i did not bore you with regards to
um tilapia fish farming it's a lot that could be said but for now let's just leave it at that bye