PRESENT STATUS OF HATCHERIES AND BROODSTOCK FEEDS IN DINAJPUR DISTRICT

Abstract

A yearlong study was conducted to investigate the present status of fish hatcheries and broodstock feeds used in the hatcheries in Dinajpur district. Twelve hatcheries were found in the study areas. Data were collected by using a well structured questionnaire. The study revealed that age of the most respondents (44.44%) was in the age group of 41-55 years, all of them were male and Muslim and used underground water in the hatchery activities. Educational qualification of most of the hatchery owners was higher secondary level (34%) and 56% of the respondents were trained by different organizations. It was found that 75% hatcheries were operated privately, 50% were large (area above 6 acres), and annual productivity of fish seed of 66.66% of hatcheries was low (less than 1000 kg). Most of the respondents (66.67%) used both commercial and on-farm feeds and commercial feed was collected from various reputed feed companies e.g. Mega Feed, Provita Feeds Limited, Quality Feeds Limited, Aftab Feed Production Limited, AG Agro Feeds Limited, Lili Feeds Limited etc. and 41.67% of the respondents applied feeds at 1-2% of body weight, 66.67% of the respondents fed twice daily in morning and evening, all of them fed the brood fish manually