R E P O R T to the GOVERNMENT OF THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC on FISH CULTURE PROJECTS AND RELATED FIELDS
	CONTENTS

Based on the work

of

D.R. Riedel
FAO/TA Inland Fishery Biologist

FAO UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE) REPORTS ON FISHERIES

This document is Report No. TA 2445 in the series of FAO Reports produced under the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Since 1 January 1966, reports produced under the former Expanded Program of Technical Assistance (EPTA) have appeared in the UNDP(TA) series. The numbering of reports in the UNDP(TA) series is unbroken and follows consecutively the numbering of the former EPTA series.

Since 1 January 1962, those reports which concern FAO Technical Assistance in fisheries have been numbered consecutively in a subseries within the general series.

The present report is the one hundred and forty-first report in the fishery subseries: FAO Fish. UNDP(TA) Rep., FR/UNDP(TA)141.

For bibliographic purposes, this document may be cited:

FAO 1968 Report to the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic on fish culture projects and related fields. Based On the work of D.R. Riedel, FAO/TA Inland Fishery Biologist. Rep. FAO/UNDP (TA), (2445):36 p.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1968

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C O N T E N T S

1.   INTRODUCTION

1.1   Background and Origin of the Project
1.2   Objectives
1.3   Development of the Project

2.   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3.   OBSERVATIONS, RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS

3.1   National Near East Fisheries Training Center, Kalaat el Moudik

3.11   History of its foundation and purpose
3.12   Development and program of the Center
3.13   Conclusions and recommendations

3.2   Warm-water Pond Fish Culture

3.21   Experimental Fish Culture Station, Kalaat el Moudik

3.211   The ponds
3.212   Fish culture experiments
3.213   Economic evaluation
3.214   Ain Taka pilot fish culture station
3.215   Conclusions and recommendations

3.2151   Experimental ponds
3.2152   Breeding stock
3.2153   Spawning and collection of fry
3.2154   Nursing
3.2155   Rearing

3.3   Trout Culture

3.31   Trout Experimental Work
3.32   Conclusions and Recommendations

4.   SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

4.1   National Near East Fisheries Training Center at Kalaat el Moudik
4.2   Experimental Fish Culture Station at Kalaat el Moudik
4.3   Ain Taka Pilot Fish Culture Station
4.4   Trout Culture
4.5   Training of Fishery Workers
4.6   Assistance to the Ministry of Agriculture on Fishery Problems

5.   SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1   National Near East Fisheries Training Center at Kalaat el Moudik
5.2   Experimental Fish Culture Station, Kalaat el Moudik
5.3   Ain Taka Pilot Fish Culture Station
5.4   Trout Culture

6.   REFERENCES

APPENDICES

1.   Outline of the Training Program for the National Near East Fisheries Training Center, Kalaat el Moudik, Syria, 1964–65

2.   Model Lease Contract - with Explanations