In Ivory Coast, the freshwater fishculture in rural areas is mainly on a small scale.This type of breeding in ponds (2 to 4 ares) yields on an average 3 metric tons of mizuno prospect gxc105 fish/ha/year and represents only an activity with self-consumption of products.The yield in intensive pond fishculture Tilapia nilotica is on an average 6 to 7 metric tons/ha/year but yields bigger than 10 metric tons/ha/year are not uncommon.The intensive fishculture in floating cages, requiring a minor investment but a more improved formation than in fischculture, yields on an average about 30 to 40 kg/m3/year.
However the effective development of this activity rests on the resolution of problems like the terracotta charger sufficient fry production, the feeding and the commercialization.