OUR STAY IN FRANCE

JOURNEY FROM COLLEGE OF FISHERIES PANTNAGAR TO LEGTPA LOUIS PASTEUR LA

CANOURGUE

FRANCE INDIA

FOOD

CULTURE

FRANCE INDIA

FARMING

CLIMATE

CONTENT OF THE TRAINING

1st week: Integration week. Visit of the facilities, overview of the institution and fish farm.

2nd week: Working together in the fish farm.3rd week: Study tour to oyster farms (Sete).4th & 5th week: Holidays with French students in

Montpellier and Perpignan.6th & 7th week: Split Training.- Full week on the fish farm + Managing the fish

farm in weekend for one student.- Working with French students , RAS Management

and preparing the report.

OUR WORK IN FISH FARM

Cleaning:- hatchery- water inlets- circular tanks- raceways

Feeding:- hatchery- circular tanks- raceways- photoperiod

OUR WORK IN FISH FARM

Collecting the dead fishes in all the tanks and cleaning them.

Taking average weight of all the fishes once in a week.

Loading fish if required

Inspecting the whole farm at the end of the day.

TECHNIQUES USED HERE ARE DIFFERENT FROM INDIA

RACEWAY EARTHEN PONDS

FISHCULTUREMETHOD

TECHNIQUES USED HERE ARE DIFFERENT FROM INDIA

FEEDINGMETHOD

NETTING

SOME NEW THINGS WE OBSERVED IN THE FISH FARM WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR FISH

FARM

DISINFECTION

GRADING INSTANT KILLER

STRIPPING OF TROUT

First experience of stripping Rainbow trout. Lot of thanks to Benoit and Phillip who gave

us a chance to strip the trout and fertilize eggs with sperm manually by our hands.

WORK IN RAS

Working on Tilapia and some ornamental fishes like Guppy, Koi carp, Betta, Gara gotyla.

Learning about Chlorella culture and Worm culture.

Feeding fishes with pelleted feed and Artemia naupli.

STUDY TOUR (SETE)

Visiting Sete with Michel was the most important as we came to know about the method of Oyster and Mussel culture practiced in Europe.

Working in oyster farm with the owner who culture oysters in the Etang de Thau.

HOLIDAYS IN FRANCE

ASSESMENT OF THE TRAINING

Learning new techniques about fish culture.

Doing things practically that we learnt only theoretically in India.

Managing a fish farm.

Working on processed fish and its packaging.

Learning a foreign language.

Interacting with different people.Developing confidence.Doing new things which

we never did before.Getting new friends.Cooking French food.Having a different view

about teacher student relationship.

Life time experience.

MERCI BEAUCOUP!!