Toshi's work

I worked in Malawi as JICA ( Japan International Cooperation Agency http://www.jica.go.jp/ ) expert in NAC ( National Aquaculture Center in Domasi http://project.jica.go.jp/malawi/5241021E1/index.htm ) from 2000 to 2004. The jobs were technical transfer of broodstock collection, seed production and juvenile rearing of carp, catfish and tilapia. Ntchila ( Labeo mesops ) is very popular and abundant fish before like it figure show in coin. I hard that Ntchila gather and swing grasses at shore during spawning season. But we can't see in market except inside national park. We collected Ntchila at Shire River inside Liwonde National Park http://www.theplateau.com/malawi/liwonde.htm with fishing permission. First thing to do, we visit fisherman village to get fisherman and bring to fishing area to drew a canoe. Fisherman set drift gill net on sunset and drew a net every an hour and it was done until late midnight . Brood fish should not have any damage, such as bleeding f...

I worked in Malawi as JICA ( Japan International Cooperation Agency http://www.jica.go.jp/ ) expert in NAC ( National Aquaculture Center in Domasi http://project.jica.go.jp/malawi/5241021E1/index.htm ) from 2000 to 2004. The jobs were technical transfer of broodstock collection, seed production and juvenile rearing of carp, catfish and tilapia. We collected broodstock at Shire River inside Liwonde National Park http://www.theplateau.com/malawi/liwonde.htm with fishing permision. The fish were scarce due to over fishing except inside the park where fishing is prohibited. Shire River is 402 Km length starting from the outlet of Lake Malawi passing through the middle of country to Zambia . We had fishing during night time when fish are active. We worked with park ranger who armed with M1 rifle to protect from poacher and animals. There was atime when a crocodile was tangled by the gill-net and pulled our canoe. Hippos rouse to the surface and intimidated to blow snort wh...