Review Article
Towards Sustainability in Seed Supply for African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) Culture in Kenya: Lessons from Asian Catfishes Industry
Table 1
Production characteristics for larvae to fry and fry to fingerlings for farmed striped catfish, P. hypophthalmus in the Mekong delta, Vietnam.
| Parameter | Production period | Larvae to fry | Fry to fingerling |
| Stocking density (/m2) | 60–8,000 | 500–800 | Stocking density (/m3) | 200–7,000 | 25–583 | Culture period (days) | 20–45 | 20–120 | Harvest (millions of fish/farm/year) | 0.04–1,800 | 0.02–60,000 | Harvest yield (millions of fish/ha/crop) | 0.3–4.65 | 0.25–1.3 | Mean size of fish (cm) | 0.5–8.5 | 1.2–20 |
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Adopted from de Graaf and Janssen [ 19] and Gisbert et al. [ 130]. |