"When it comes to how to start a fish farm, especially a commercial one, fish farmers need to analyze the market, be cautious about site selection, persist in the principle of scientific design and strict construction quality control, and carry out high-efficiency fish farm management mode, etc.

During the market analysis, fish farmers need to learn about the popular fish types in local market, the existing fish market supply and market demand, the overall consumption situation, the fish farming development policies and so on. In a word, businessmen can better know the proportional relationship between market fish supply and demand, adopt right business strategy, meet market demand for fishes and enhance the economic benefits via detailed market analysis of local fish farming.

For fish farm building, site selection is extremely important, which should consider several main factors, including water source, water and soil property, traffic condition and fish feed, etc. It’s very necessary to build commercial fish farm and dig fishpond near rivers, lakes or reservoirs, and acquire detailed knowledge of water quality condition at the same time, avoiding the pollution caused by the emission of industrial waste water, poisonous sewage or others. Besides, it’s the best to choose loam to build ponds because its water permeability and water-retaining property of loam is moderate, and loam’s cohesion and shear strength is suitable when diking. In the actual operation, there are 3 points to be considered as follows: low-lying areas that are easy to be overwhelmed by a flood and highland areas that are easy to be lack in water resource if drought; inconvenient traffic and operations and large investment if building stair-type fishpond; trying to make the most of poor ground instead of occupying fertile farmland. Because there are always materials in and out in fish farm, it’s essential to start a commercial fish farm at places with easy transportation, in favor of the purchase of fish feed and the sales of fish products.

Except for the advanced cultivation technology, modern and high-efficiency fish farm management is also very important for starting a successful fish farm business. With good fish farm administration mode, owners can make sure their staffs operate according to standards, avoid unnecessary loss and enhance the working efficiency, thus achieving the biggest profits. The stocking density should depend on pond condition, fish feed supply condition, fish type and size, management level and other aspects, and the stocking density relates directly to adult fish yield. So FANWAY suggests confirm the reasonable trash volume after finding out the basic requirement of fish type, survival rate and scheduled output. Please choose the fish feed conforming to the safety requirements of non-environmental pollution aquatic products, without non-standard feed additives. Proper feeding can be helpful for checking fish feeding situation, feeding place cleaning, degassing and fish disease prevention, which has great significance in improving feeding efficiency.

For all commercial fish farm, fish feed has become the most important nutritional source of fish growth. In the whole cost of running commercial fish farm, fish feed can occupy a large part because of the high price, average up to 50%-60%, some even up to about 70%. Therefore, lowering fish feed cost is very significant for better economic benefits. Here, FANWAY provides several points to help decrease the fish feed cost, such as breeding superior quality fingerlings, keeping good water quality, preventing fish disease, feeding fish properly, ensuring fish feed nutrition, and most importantly, producing fish feed by your own via fish feed machine.

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