Fish Farms Status in Thi_Qar province

Abstract

This study was conducted on fish farm in Thi_Qar province for 2013-2014 to stand on real projects for fish production in the province and it's development.The Results showed that Thi-qar contains 40 fish culture in earthen ponds,17 culture of them still working with water total area of 168 donum and 23 culture in earthen ponds was un working (stop working) in water total earea170 donum, and the thi-qar contain on 28fish culture in cages located mostly in Nasiryah and the other was distribute on the Rifaei and Suq-El Shiyookh .It's also does not contain any fish hatchery recorded (still working) recorded in the Department of conservation agriculture and most of the fish comes from outside the province. Also found by the results of the current study, the total produced by Thi-qar fish is only 716 tons/year.