Ahmed Diab
09-29-2007, 04:13 PM
History of the Laboratory
The aquaculture Project grew out of an agreement between the Egyptian government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the agreement was signed on September 7, 1978.
A Presidential decree no 70 for 1979 was issued to confirm the agreement approval. The Project had established under the National Aquaculture Center, to provide a leadership in researches, training and extension in aquaculture. Abbassa was chosen as the site for the national center because of its strategic location in region where many fish farms concentrated. The construction began in 1981.
The project was funded through a grant from the USAID with amount of $23.4 millions and L.E 7.7 millions from the Egyptian Government. CLAR joined the Agricultural Research Center on November 12, 1991 and is now firmly established as national most important center for aquaculture research.
Mandate of CLAR
1- Design and carry out the research strategy for sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries in Egypt, related to direct general strategy of the country.
2- Integration with animal and plant production, in order to the food requirements from fish protein, to reach self sufficient from fish protein sources and export the extra fish production.
3- Develop technology transfer to the target organization. Modify and transfer the researches results and studies to target and policy maker for rural and desert societies development.
4- The environmental and socio-economic aspects will be considered.
I- Research Activity
The goals of the applied researches and studies to
1. Decrease the animal protein gap through applied research focusing to sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries
2. Participation in the national plan for newly graduate and youth job source of incomes through projects of low economic, rapid return and also focusing on low scale aquaculture
3. Encourage fish and crustaceans aquaculture in desert regions, sea shore and Mariculture to organic fish aquaculture.
4. Increase fish production per unit area on scientific and economic bases
5. Solve hatchery problems for new native species (Lates niloticus,…) to increase the fry production and improve survival rate and brood stock management.
6. Breed fish strains and hybrid that perform better under environmental conditions and different aquaculture systems
7. Produce low cost, untraditional. Feed and fertilizer for living aquatic organisms, using plant and animal by products as feed and fertilizer.
8. Established the standardize techniques for maximizing productions and better management aquatic resources.
9. Identify and develop new production opportunities.
10. To develop skilled research manpower training,
11. Transfer the technologies to users through training the extension workers, planners, fish farmers and other relevant persons.
12. Advice the government in all matters relating to research and management of living aquatic resources.
13. Use the Biotechnology in diagnosis and control for fish, use the friendly environmental products, immunostimulants (plant and animal extracts) and vaccination.
14. Determine and improve means of handling, storage and processing fish.
15. Specify the economical basis and fundamental techniques for established and management fish forms.
16. Established various management programs to enhance under condition (fertilizer, aquatic organisms …).
17. Study the environmental, socio-economic and extension aspects in aquaculture.
I – Activities of Researches Departments.
1- Reproductive Physiology and Hatchery
1- Produce mono sex population of tilapia by using sex reversal techniques.
2- Biochemical effect of some chemicals on the activity of some enzymes in tissues of freshwater fish.
3- Studies of different levels of protein and heavy metal pollution on fish performance.
4- Maximizing larvae production and minimizing cannibalistic behavior among fry of Claries gariepinus.
5- Natural and artificial spawning of common carp, Chinese carp.
6- Improve fry handling, nursing and rearing in earthen ponds.
7- Effect of different pollution sources on reproductive fish.
2- Fish Genetics and Breeding
1- Reproductive evaluation of three strains of Nile tilapia collected from different locations.
2- Growth performances of three strains of Nile tilapia collected from different locations.
3- Electrophoresis analysis of three strains of Nile tilapia collected from different locations.
4- Genetic evaluation of salinity tolerance for different tilapia species.
5- Genetic enhancement of Nile tilapia strains under different culture systems (rice/fish-cages and earthen ponds).
6- Individual and mass spawning of different strains of Nile tilapia.
7- Genetic studies of tilapia species raised under different salinity.
8- Genetics and physiological studies of different fish species collected from polluted areas.
9- DNA finger print for some tilapia species
3- Fish Production and Aquaculture systems
1- Effect of using artificial feed, rabbit manure, super-phosphate and Urea on Common carp performance
2- Mechanical nutrition and aeration of fish culture.
3- Effect of duck manure and poultry manure levels on Silver carp performance.
4- Integrated animal and fish culture.
5- Cage culture in freshwater, fish culture in rice fields.
6- Effect of different stocking density on performance of tilapia.
7- Effect of using different methods of weeds control on pond productivity.
8- Effect of using commercial diets, manure and agriculture by-products on performance of Nile tilapia and Common carp.
9- Effect of using different rate of minerals in feeding of Nile tilapia performance.
10- Effect of dietary protein levels on fish performance.
11- Effect of using different levels of protein and energy on tilapia growth.
12- Effect of organic fertilizer and artificial feed on pond productivity in polyculture systems.
13- Aquaculture engineering and its effect on pond productivity.
14- Intensive fish culture systems.
15- Effect of Dimsessa plant on growth performance of grass carp,
16- Effect of different sizes of O. niloticus on growth performance and total production.
17- Performance of O. niloticus monosex in desert lands.
4- Soil and water Limnology
1- Reduction of total costs by using new technology in aquaculture management.
2- Practices of developed pond management in new areas.
3- Evaluation of using water hyacinth as a biological treatment for sewage wastewater in fresh earthen pond.
4- Evaluation of using compost on water quality, soil analysis and tilapia production.
5- Remove of toxic ammonia by phytoplankton in water fish ponds.
6- Stock assessment and limnological studies on Lake Borolus.
7- Evaluation of variables soils under different aquaculture systems.
8- Evaluation of phytoplankton as a non traditional fish diets.
9- Evaluation of fertilization system using in different soil types and economical studies.
10- Stock assessment in Lake Qaroun, Temsah and El-Manzala and limnological studies.
11- Evaluation of different management systems on different fish species and water and soil.
12- Commercial mass production of phytoplankton as non traditional diets and as a source of anti-toxin.
13- Economic evaluation of different stocking component in fish ponds and cages.
14- Evaluation of the role of water quality in fish disease under different water sources.
15- Using of aquaculture systems in leaching soil.
16- Survey on polluted levels in fresh and drainage water canals.
17- Aquaculture soil amendment.
5- Nutrition and Feed Technology
1- Study the nutritional requirement and feed formulations for different fish types under various environmental conditions.
2- Evaluate using growth promoters, i.e., hormones, antibiotics, etc., in fish diet.
3- Study the effect of adding different forms of vitamins in fish diet.
4- Determine the dietary requirement of protein and lipid for fish growth, spawning and survival.
5- Evaluate the nontraditional ingredients in fish feed.
6- Study the effect of diet contains different minerals on fish growth.
6- Fish Health and Zoonosis
1- Identify the bacterial causative agents of fresh water fish in aquaculture in Sharkia governorate the best methods for diagnosis and control.
2- Identify the external and internal parasites of economic or zoonotic importance and methods of control in Sharkia governorate.
3- Identify bacterial, parasitic and fungal causative agents in Hatcheries (Broods tock, eggs and larva) and the suitable methods of control.
4- Identify the best method for spawning in recycling under Macrobrachium rosenbergii Egyptian environment and identify the bacterial causative agents of economic importance of hatcheries and aquaculture.
5- Diagnosis control using leaves as mechanical and poly culture as biological
6- Diagnosis of INPH virus by culture on ovary tissue culture (tilapia and African catfish) and Electron microscope
7- Fish bacterial isolates bank
8- Diagnosis of vitamin C deficiency in tilapia and African catfish
9- Sensitivity test for bacteria using garlic, karkade and black seed extracts
10- Addition of garlic and black seed powder to ration increase the immune system efficiency to bacterial and fungal diseases.
11- Use of charcoal in control aflatoxin in O. niloticus and O. aureus
12- Survey on freshwater mariculture fishes, crustaceans and aquaria fishes of economic importance diseases (Production; reproduction; zoonotics/ infectious and non-infectious) and its relation to seasonality; dynamic and environmental conditions
13- Use of biotechnology (PCR , …) in rapid and accurate diseases diagnosis to reach farmers diagnostic kits.
14- Improve the immune system via cheap local feed additives immunostmulants, safe applicable vaccines to control diseases and produce diseases résistance organisms.
15- Production products from plants and animal origin of biological values.
16- Treatments and control of diseases focusing on biological control and friendly environmental products.
7- Fish Biology and Ecology
1- The effect of different stocking densities and food substrate on Macrobrachium habit feed.
2- Effect of some heavy metals on some biological aspects of tilapia species in Abbassa.
3- Ecological studies on Azola anabaena and its relations to pond fish production.
4- Effect of the herbicides (Amertryne) on some biological aspects of Common carp.
5- Study of some environmental factors effect the productivity on the fish farming.
6- Biological studies on black carp in Egypt.
7- The effect of Azola on chemical characters and growth rate of fish in ponds.
8- Food and feeding habits of Oreochromis niloticus under the effect of inorganic fertilizer with different NPK ratio in Abbassa fish farm.
9- Biological studies on economic Egyptian fish in aquaculture systems.
10- Studies of human activities on fish production in the natural water resources.
11- Studies of human activities effects on the environmental systems on biological differentiation in Egyptian Lakes and River Nile.
12- Studies of fish biological differentiation in the local environmental field.
13- Ecological comparative study on carnivorous fish and herbivorous fish.
14- Environmental survey for polluted resources and their effect of fish in Sharkia Governorate.
8- Economics
1- An Economic and Technical study of Aquaculture in floating Cages.
2- Fish international trade in Egypt.
3- An Economic and Technical study of Fish utilization in Manzala Lake.
4- Aquaculture development in Egypt.
5- An economic and analytical study of aquaculture and its effect on fish Production.
6- Environment pollution and economic development of fisheries.
7- Economic evaluation of tilapia culture in earthen ponds.
8- Economic evaluation of the effect of periodical feeding on fish growth in Traditional Egyptian culture.
9- An Analytical Economic study for expecting the risk factors in Aquaculture.
10- Economics of fish marketing in Egypt.
11- An economic and technical strategy of fisheries in Egypt.
12- An economic study of fish production and consumption in Egypt.
9- Extension
1- The role of agriculture extension in development of fish in rice field.
2- The role of agriculture extension in development of fish farm.
3- Training needs of all fish farmers in different aquaculture activities.
4- Training needs for Extension workers in area of Rice-fish culture.
5- Effect of training on labors knowledge changes in fish farms.
6- Study the factors that affect the fish farmer's adoption of aquaculture.
7- Study the suitable extension methods and communication methods
8- For the deviations of the researches results and recommendations to Fish farmers.
9- Study the effect of training programs on labors and extension Workers in aquaculture activities.
10- Study the fish farmers and extension workers attitude towards
11- All aquaculture kinds and the factors which affect these attitudes.
10- Fish Processing and Quality Control
1- Technological, chemical and microbiological studies on effect of some natural and artificial antioxidant on minced fish during storage period by freezing.
2- Technological and sensory studies on fish flour and some fish Products.
3- Technological, chemical and microbiological and sensory studies on salted and fermented fish.
4- Technological and chemical studies on some minced and smoking fish.
5- Technological and sensory studies on common carp products (Sausage-Berger fish fingers - minced fish)
6- Influence of some organic acids and their salts on quality changes of Common carp fillets stored in different temperature.
7- Chemical studies on isolation and characterization of protamines from common carp.
8- Biochemical studies on the effect of isolated protamines on the Catfish.
9- Chemical studies on quality of canned fish.
10- Technological studies on protamines isolated processed from common carp and catfish.
11- Biochemical studies on the effect of isolated protamines on the laboratory
12- Animal (rats).
13- Studies on the effect of water quality on histopathological,
14- Chemical and sensory of the tissues of fresh water fish.
15- Technological and chemical studies on the residues in fresh water Fish.
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The aquaculture Project grew out of an agreement between the Egyptian government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the agreement was signed on September 7, 1978.
A Presidential decree no 70 for 1979 was issued to confirm the agreement approval. The Project had established under the National Aquaculture Center, to provide a leadership in researches, training and extension in aquaculture. Abbassa was chosen as the site for the national center because of its strategic location in region where many fish farms concentrated. The construction began in 1981.
The project was funded through a grant from the USAID with amount of $23.4 millions and L.E 7.7 millions from the Egyptian Government. CLAR joined the Agricultural Research Center on November 12, 1991 and is now firmly established as national most important center for aquaculture research.
Mandate of CLAR
1- Design and carry out the research strategy for sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries in Egypt, related to direct general strategy of the country.
2- Integration with animal and plant production, in order to the food requirements from fish protein, to reach self sufficient from fish protein sources and export the extra fish production.
3- Develop technology transfer to the target organization. Modify and transfer the researches results and studies to target and policy maker for rural and desert societies development.
4- The environmental and socio-economic aspects will be considered.
I- Research Activity
The goals of the applied researches and studies to
1. Decrease the animal protein gap through applied research focusing to sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries
2. Participation in the national plan for newly graduate and youth job source of incomes through projects of low economic, rapid return and also focusing on low scale aquaculture
3. Encourage fish and crustaceans aquaculture in desert regions, sea shore and Mariculture to organic fish aquaculture.
4. Increase fish production per unit area on scientific and economic bases
5. Solve hatchery problems for new native species (Lates niloticus,…) to increase the fry production and improve survival rate and brood stock management.
6. Breed fish strains and hybrid that perform better under environmental conditions and different aquaculture systems
7. Produce low cost, untraditional. Feed and fertilizer for living aquatic organisms, using plant and animal by products as feed and fertilizer.
8. Established the standardize techniques for maximizing productions and better management aquatic resources.
9. Identify and develop new production opportunities.
10. To develop skilled research manpower training,
11. Transfer the technologies to users through training the extension workers, planners, fish farmers and other relevant persons.
12. Advice the government in all matters relating to research and management of living aquatic resources.
13. Use the Biotechnology in diagnosis and control for fish, use the friendly environmental products, immunostimulants (plant and animal extracts) and vaccination.
14. Determine and improve means of handling, storage and processing fish.
15. Specify the economical basis and fundamental techniques for established and management fish forms.
16. Established various management programs to enhance under condition (fertilizer, aquatic organisms …).
17. Study the environmental, socio-economic and extension aspects in aquaculture.
I – Activities of Researches Departments.
1- Reproductive Physiology and Hatchery
1- Produce mono sex population of tilapia by using sex reversal techniques.
2- Biochemical effect of some chemicals on the activity of some enzymes in tissues of freshwater fish.
3- Studies of different levels of protein and heavy metal pollution on fish performance.
4- Maximizing larvae production and minimizing cannibalistic behavior among fry of Claries gariepinus.
5- Natural and artificial spawning of common carp, Chinese carp.
6- Improve fry handling, nursing and rearing in earthen ponds.
7- Effect of different pollution sources on reproductive fish.
2- Fish Genetics and Breeding
1- Reproductive evaluation of three strains of Nile tilapia collected from different locations.
2- Growth performances of three strains of Nile tilapia collected from different locations.
3- Electrophoresis analysis of three strains of Nile tilapia collected from different locations.
4- Genetic evaluation of salinity tolerance for different tilapia species.
5- Genetic enhancement of Nile tilapia strains under different culture systems (rice/fish-cages and earthen ponds).
6- Individual and mass spawning of different strains of Nile tilapia.
7- Genetic studies of tilapia species raised under different salinity.
8- Genetics and physiological studies of different fish species collected from polluted areas.
9- DNA finger print for some tilapia species
3- Fish Production and Aquaculture systems
1- Effect of using artificial feed, rabbit manure, super-phosphate and Urea on Common carp performance
2- Mechanical nutrition and aeration of fish culture.
3- Effect of duck manure and poultry manure levels on Silver carp performance.
4- Integrated animal and fish culture.
5- Cage culture in freshwater, fish culture in rice fields.
6- Effect of different stocking density on performance of tilapia.
7- Effect of using different methods of weeds control on pond productivity.
8- Effect of using commercial diets, manure and agriculture by-products on performance of Nile tilapia and Common carp.
9- Effect of using different rate of minerals in feeding of Nile tilapia performance.
10- Effect of dietary protein levels on fish performance.
11- Effect of using different levels of protein and energy on tilapia growth.
12- Effect of organic fertilizer and artificial feed on pond productivity in polyculture systems.
13- Aquaculture engineering and its effect on pond productivity.
14- Intensive fish culture systems.
15- Effect of Dimsessa plant on growth performance of grass carp,
16- Effect of different sizes of O. niloticus on growth performance and total production.
17- Performance of O. niloticus monosex in desert lands.
4- Soil and water Limnology
1- Reduction of total costs by using new technology in aquaculture management.
2- Practices of developed pond management in new areas.
3- Evaluation of using water hyacinth as a biological treatment for sewage wastewater in fresh earthen pond.
4- Evaluation of using compost on water quality, soil analysis and tilapia production.
5- Remove of toxic ammonia by phytoplankton in water fish ponds.
6- Stock assessment and limnological studies on Lake Borolus.
7- Evaluation of variables soils under different aquaculture systems.
8- Evaluation of phytoplankton as a non traditional fish diets.
9- Evaluation of fertilization system using in different soil types and economical studies.
10- Stock assessment in Lake Qaroun, Temsah and El-Manzala and limnological studies.
11- Evaluation of different management systems on different fish species and water and soil.
12- Commercial mass production of phytoplankton as non traditional diets and as a source of anti-toxin.
13- Economic evaluation of different stocking component in fish ponds and cages.
14- Evaluation of the role of water quality in fish disease under different water sources.
15- Using of aquaculture systems in leaching soil.
16- Survey on polluted levels in fresh and drainage water canals.
17- Aquaculture soil amendment.
5- Nutrition and Feed Technology
1- Study the nutritional requirement and feed formulations for different fish types under various environmental conditions.
2- Evaluate using growth promoters, i.e., hormones, antibiotics, etc., in fish diet.
3- Study the effect of adding different forms of vitamins in fish diet.
4- Determine the dietary requirement of protein and lipid for fish growth, spawning and survival.
5- Evaluate the nontraditional ingredients in fish feed.
6- Study the effect of diet contains different minerals on fish growth.
6- Fish Health and Zoonosis
1- Identify the bacterial causative agents of fresh water fish in aquaculture in Sharkia governorate the best methods for diagnosis and control.
2- Identify the external and internal parasites of economic or zoonotic importance and methods of control in Sharkia governorate.
3- Identify bacterial, parasitic and fungal causative agents in Hatcheries (Broods tock, eggs and larva) and the suitable methods of control.
4- Identify the best method for spawning in recycling under Macrobrachium rosenbergii Egyptian environment and identify the bacterial causative agents of economic importance of hatcheries and aquaculture.
5- Diagnosis control using leaves as mechanical and poly culture as biological
6- Diagnosis of INPH virus by culture on ovary tissue culture (tilapia and African catfish) and Electron microscope
7- Fish bacterial isolates bank
8- Diagnosis of vitamin C deficiency in tilapia and African catfish
9- Sensitivity test for bacteria using garlic, karkade and black seed extracts
10- Addition of garlic and black seed powder to ration increase the immune system efficiency to bacterial and fungal diseases.
11- Use of charcoal in control aflatoxin in O. niloticus and O. aureus
12- Survey on freshwater mariculture fishes, crustaceans and aquaria fishes of economic importance diseases (Production; reproduction; zoonotics/ infectious and non-infectious) and its relation to seasonality; dynamic and environmental conditions
13- Use of biotechnology (PCR , …) in rapid and accurate diseases diagnosis to reach farmers diagnostic kits.
14- Improve the immune system via cheap local feed additives immunostmulants, safe applicable vaccines to control diseases and produce diseases résistance organisms.
15- Production products from plants and animal origin of biological values.
16- Treatments and control of diseases focusing on biological control and friendly environmental products.
7- Fish Biology and Ecology
1- The effect of different stocking densities and food substrate on Macrobrachium habit feed.
2- Effect of some heavy metals on some biological aspects of tilapia species in Abbassa.
3- Ecological studies on Azola anabaena and its relations to pond fish production.
4- Effect of the herbicides (Amertryne) on some biological aspects of Common carp.
5- Study of some environmental factors effect the productivity on the fish farming.
6- Biological studies on black carp in Egypt.
7- The effect of Azola on chemical characters and growth rate of fish in ponds.
8- Food and feeding habits of Oreochromis niloticus under the effect of inorganic fertilizer with different NPK ratio in Abbassa fish farm.
9- Biological studies on economic Egyptian fish in aquaculture systems.
10- Studies of human activities on fish production in the natural water resources.
11- Studies of human activities effects on the environmental systems on biological differentiation in Egyptian Lakes and River Nile.
12- Studies of fish biological differentiation in the local environmental field.
13- Ecological comparative study on carnivorous fish and herbivorous fish.
14- Environmental survey for polluted resources and their effect of fish in Sharkia Governorate.
8- Economics
1- An Economic and Technical study of Aquaculture in floating Cages.
2- Fish international trade in Egypt.
3- An Economic and Technical study of Fish utilization in Manzala Lake.
4- Aquaculture development in Egypt.
5- An economic and analytical study of aquaculture and its effect on fish Production.
6- Environment pollution and economic development of fisheries.
7- Economic evaluation of tilapia culture in earthen ponds.
8- Economic evaluation of the effect of periodical feeding on fish growth in Traditional Egyptian culture.
9- An Analytical Economic study for expecting the risk factors in Aquaculture.
10- Economics of fish marketing in Egypt.
11- An economic and technical strategy of fisheries in Egypt.
12- An economic study of fish production and consumption in Egypt.
9- Extension
1- The role of agriculture extension in development of fish in rice field.
2- The role of agriculture extension in development of fish farm.
3- Training needs of all fish farmers in different aquaculture activities.
4- Training needs for Extension workers in area of Rice-fish culture.
5- Effect of training on labors knowledge changes in fish farms.
6- Study the factors that affect the fish farmer's adoption of aquaculture.
7- Study the suitable extension methods and communication methods
8- For the deviations of the researches results and recommendations to Fish farmers.
9- Study the effect of training programs on labors and extension Workers in aquaculture activities.
10- Study the fish farmers and extension workers attitude towards
11- All aquaculture kinds and the factors which affect these attitudes.
10- Fish Processing and Quality Control
1- Technological, chemical and microbiological studies on effect of some natural and artificial antioxidant on minced fish during storage period by freezing.
2- Technological and sensory studies on fish flour and some fish Products.
3- Technological, chemical and microbiological and sensory studies on salted and fermented fish.
4- Technological and chemical studies on some minced and smoking fish.
5- Technological and sensory studies on common carp products (Sausage-Berger fish fingers - minced fish)
6- Influence of some organic acids and their salts on quality changes of Common carp fillets stored in different temperature.
7- Chemical studies on isolation and characterization of protamines from common carp.
8- Biochemical studies on the effect of isolated protamines on the Catfish.
9- Chemical studies on quality of canned fish.
10- Technological studies on protamines isolated processed from common carp and catfish.
11- Biochemical studies on the effect of isolated protamines on the laboratory
12- Animal (rats).
13- Studies on the effect of water quality on histopathological,
14- Chemical and sensory of the tissues of fresh water fish.
15- Technological and chemical studies on the residues in fresh water Fish.
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