CoverTCP/CUB/8821
Field Document 1
May 1998
REPORT OF THE FIRST FAO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MISSION
By
Albert G.J. Tacon
Fishery Resources Officer (Feed Specialist)
Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
La Habana, Cuba
1998

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A report prepared for Project TCP/CUB/8821
Alimentacion de Peces por Metodos Alternatives no Convencionales

ABSTRACT

This report details the results of the first technical assistance mission for Project TCP/CUB/8821 Alimentacion de Peces por Metodos Alternativos no Convencionales. The main aim of the project is to assist the government of Cuba in the development of improved feed manufacturing and feeding methods for the production of freshwater finfish within semi-intensive and intensive farming systems. The present report presents guidelines for 1) the compilation and establishment of a national aquaculture feed and fertilizer resource atlas of Cuba in text and database format, 2) the compilation of farm feeding profiles for the major cultivated freshwater fifnfish species in Cuba, 3) in combination with the the aquaculture feed and fertilizer resource atlas, the establishment of a database for the storage of information on aquaculture nutrition and feeding (including farm feeding profiles), and 4) the establishment of an experimental facility at the Centro de Preparation Acuicola Mamposton, Ministerio de la Industria Pesquera (MIP), for the routine testing and evaluation of feed ingredients and compound aquaculture feeds. In addition a suggested workplan for the Project is also included.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The consultant would like to thank Mr Fernando Robayo R. (Representante de la FAO) and Ms Asuncion Pratts (Oficial de Programas y Administracion, FAO) for their constant encouragement and support throrughout the mission. Sincere appreciation is , also extended to the following persons who were consulted during the mission and by so doing contributed toward the preparation of this report (in chronological order) Ms Maria Cristina Garcia Capote (Fish Nutritionist), Mr Alfredo de la Cruz ((Investigador Titular, Centro de Investigaciones Marinas, Universidad de La Habana), Dra Rosa M. Munoz (Biblioteca, FAO), Mr Manuel Alvarez Rodriguez (Director, Direccion de Asuntos Internacionales y Juridicos, Ministerio de la Industria Pesquera - MIP), Dr Julio Bernardo Riera (Director Acuicultura, MIP), Dra Mirta Vinjoy Campas, Jefa de Division de Desarrollo y Ictiopathologa, Centro de Preparacion Acuicola Mamposton, MIP Mr Gonzalo Diaz Perez (Sub-Director de Produccion, Centro de reparation Acuicola Mamposton, MIP), Dra Adela Prieto Trujillo (Director, Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras - CIP, MIP), Dra Elda Pelegrin Morales (Biologa-Nutricionista, CIP, MIP), Mr Jose Galindo Lopez (Bioquimico-Nutricionista, CIP, MIP), Ms Madelin de Arazoza (Bioquimica-Nutricionista, CIP, MIP), Mr Raul Morales (Director, Centro de Preparation Acuicola Mamposton, MIP), Dra Bertha Chongo Garcia (Vice-Directora de Biotechnologia-Fisiologia, Instituto de Ciencias Animal - ICA, San Jose de las Lajas, La Habana), Dra Esmeralda Lon-Wo (Investigador Titular, Especialista de Nutricion y Manejo de Aves, ICA), Dra Lourdes Lucila Savon (Investigador Titular, Especialista de Bioquimica y Fisiologia de Cerdos, ICA), Dra Adelia Gutierrez Barrotor (Investigador Titular, Especialista de Bioquimica y Fisiologia de Rumiantes, ICA), Dr Ronaldo Ramos Mestre (Investigador Titular, Especialista de Produccion Vegetal, ICA), Dra J. Susana Alvarez Capote (Nutricionista, CIP, MIP), Mr Leonardo Cabezas Rodriguez (Vice-Director General, Centro Nacional para la Produccion de Animales de Laboratorio - CENPALAB, Bejucal, Habana), and Mr Jose Arronte Arce. (Division de Roedores Gnotobioticos, CENPALAB). Finally, but not least, particular special thanks must be given to Mr Sergio Jose Toledo Perez (National Project Director) who acted as both my friend and counterpart throughout the mission, and without whom this report would not have been possible.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.     INTRODUCTION AND TERMS OF REFERENCE

2.     ITINERARY

3.     PROJECT COUNTERPART STAFF

4.     AQUACULTURE FEED AND FERTILIZER RESOURCE ATLAS

5.     AQUACULTURE FARM FEEDING PROFILES

6.     EXPERIMENTAL DIET TESTING FACILITIES AND LABORATORY

7.     RECOMMENDED BUDGET MODIFICATIONS

8.     REVISED WORK PLAN

9.     OTHER MATTERS

10.   REFERENCES

LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE 1.   INDOOR TANK AND FEED MANUFACTURING FACILITY

FIGURE 2.   OUTDOOR EXPERIMENTAL TANK FACILITY

FIGURE 3.   OUTDOOR POND EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY

LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX I:   SUGGESTED DATABASE STRUCTURE FOR THE ATLAS

APPENDIX II:   SUGGESTED QUESTIONNAIRE FOR FARM FEEDING PROFILES