This morning we seined and re-seined a pond nearby. The bigs were harvested, the male smalls were transferred to a neighbouring pond and the female smalls were sold to nearby fish farmers.
It was hot. After a few hours I can almost sex a small tilapia. Not easy, magnifying glasses were needed. The job would have been so much easier if we had a saw-horse and a door for a table with some small dipnets. Also proper deep buckets would have been a bonus to keep fish cool and a little tarp shelter to keep humans cool.
The extension officers there are the likely trainers that will provide technical training to the widows in the next 2 weeks. We want to have them together, on a properly run fish farm, learning the best practices from feeding to harvesting to basic pond maintenance.
As the pond was being seined we also made plans with KASFOOC to tour the 3 protected spring contractors this weekend so they know exactly where to go on Monday.
So a productive morning. See a video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBSUYGvP26w&context=C3041569ADOEgsToPDskLF3UsSD8kWZ4MIqGmtdwEe
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