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Fish Farming in the Belgian Congo

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DR. C. F. HICKLING1 recently gave a survey of fish farming in the Middle and Far East. He mentioned that the best results were obtained in Africa with species of Tilapia (Percomorphi, Cichlidæ). The study of fish-farming problems being one of the principal objects of the Fisheries Research Station at Elisabethville (Belgian Congo), it may be of interest to describe some of our observations and results.

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DE BONT, A. Fish Farming in the Belgian Congo. Nature 162, 998–999 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162998a0

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