THE BATTALION Page 5
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1981
1 Native Israeli fish going public
Aggie pond harvesting starts
By ERICA KRENNERICH
Battalion Reporter
Fish harvests have begun in the
Aggie fish pond. But that’s not the
Fish Pond by Sbisa Dining Hall
where Texas A&M freshmen
cadets throw yell leaders after
football victories.
The harvesting is taking place
at the Aquaculture Research Cen
ter, known as the Aggie fish pond
to those who work there. The cen
ter is located on Highway 60, ab
out five miles west of the Universi
ty, and is part of the Texas A&M
Extension Service.
The fish, Tilapia aurea, native
to Israel, are part of Cynthia Kit-
tler’s research for a doctorate in
wildlife and fisheries.
Kittler said that with proper
weather conditions, the fish will
be harvested and sold this week
for 80 cents a pound live weight.
“Tilapia are a very tasty fish,
not very bony,” she said. “They
have white, flaky meat that tends
to have less trouble with an off-
fiavor than catfish.”
Kittler said they would sell for
about $2 a pound commercially,
and that only fish over one-half
pound will be sold. The money
from sales will go to cover the cost
of raising next year’s fish, she said.
Kittler expects to have about
1,500 pounds, or 3,000 fish, to
sell. People who want to buy fish
can contact her at the center or
sign up for the number of pounds
they want in the second-floor lib
rary of Nagle Hall.
People are needed to help har
vest the fish and can sign up in
Nagle Hall for the hours and days
they can work. “We need a lot of
people to help,” she said. She has
12 ponds to harvest, and no more
than two ponds can be harvested
in a day.
Kittler, who is from Shreve
port, La., stocked the fish ponds
on July 1. She said the fish must be
harvested before the weather gets
too cold. They usually will die in
water below 55 degrees.
Six ponds were stocked with
only males and six with both males
and females. Kittler said after tila
pia hatch they can be given a male
hormone for four weeks to ensure
an all-male population.
She said she wanted to stock
only males for her research but did
not have enough for the 12 ponds.
Ponds with males and females
usually cause an increase in the
volume of fish because of numer
ous offspring, but do not show
large increases in fish size as in
ponds with males only.
“The reason I am doing this re
search is to show an economical
means of producing these fish in
Texas as a commercial product,”
she said. “What we’re looking for
is a saleable fish about five pounds
in weight.”
Cynthia Kittler shows off one of the Tilapia
fish, which are similar to perch, that she has
Campus
Names
Cloyce Coffman
The Texas Agriculture Exten
sion Service, a branch of the Texas
A&M University System, has
named a new agronomist to work
in the areas of corn and grain sor
ghum production.
Cloyce Coffman will be head-
|quartered in the Department of
and Crop Sciences at Texas
A&M. He is a member of the
American Society of Agronomy,
Science Society of America,
Crop Science Society of America
and Soil Conservation Society of
America.
Coffman holds a bachelor’s de
gree in agricultural education and
a master’s degree in soils, both
from the University of Missouri.
He has completed most of the re
quirements for a doctoral degree
in soil fertility from Iowa State
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