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 (/m^2)	60–8,000	500–800
Stocking density (/m^3)	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

Adopted from de Graaf and Janssen [19] and Gisbert et al. [130].