During this period, a small-scale business of farming freshwater catfish will help improve income generation in Myanmar, according to fish seed traders.
In addition to freshwater catfish, climbing perch and frogs can be a choice for farming to enable early monetization in a short time as it takes only three months of breeding them until marketing, they suggested.
“If they wish to do small-scale farming, they can choose them. Some use tarpaulin to farm. With tarpaulin, they cannot farm rohu and mackerel fish, but they can farm frogs, catfish and perch. They normally farm fish such as rohu and mackerel in acres. For small-scale farming, they choose frogs and catfish. Climbing fish can be farmed in a spacious brick lake. Frogs, catfish and climbing perch, can be mature and big enough within two to three months. So, if people farm them, they can make earnings within a short time. They need to feed enough to the number of fish they are farming,” said an official from Ko Zaw Moe fish seed trading, which farms over 100 acres in Kayan Township.
This is the fish-spawning season, and the period from April to June is classified as a “no fishing period” in the 2023-2024 financial year, and the fishing season will start in July.
In previous years, the closed season for fishing was classified according to the type of fishing boat, and the suspension period varied from two to three months. A no-fishing period is designated for April, May, and June, and it is reportedly planned to advance by one month every year to establish the closed season. — Thit Taw/ZN
