Visit Cuajiniquil

In Cuajiniquil (near the border with Nicaragua, in a relatively quiet bay) Dr. Frank Joyce has three years to maintain cages, mainly snapper. Here are some excerpts from the visit he made.

PVC three cages of considerable size, especially if we consider that the depth of the mesh is 7 meters (around the top of the screen). In one of the crates inside the entire grid was covered with oysters that had grown spontaneously, throughout the depth of 7 meters, a performance worthy of being demonstrative and otherwise because of a polycultural estimate that between 2000 and 3000 have almost oysters mature.

Detail of a cage. PVC is about to endure four years without problem sun cracking or separation of joints.

View of water that are snappers.

Another cage in which there are also pink snapper.

The junk food is fish and chopped squid.

The voracity of these carnivores is worthy of admiration. An excellent approach to food is when animals are no longer interested in the food they were strip-why should not take.

 

Something interesting happened to me. After feeding the fish in this cage, I sumergí out to see something of the mesh, and found that they had so many fish of all sizes and species outside as inside. Everyone was watching static inside the cage. Mariculture attracts fish promotes fishing.

There are some smaller cages for animal breeding and some experimentation (always have a few pots in the water to catch juveniles).

Dr. Joyce taking weight and height measurements with a snapper and parasites.

We want to congratulate Dr. Frank Joyce for their dedication and effort to this activity and to thank the courtesy of having served during our visit.