1. Patrick Sorgeloos Laboratory for Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center Presentation for his Excellency President Museveni, Kampala August 29, 2009 Aquaculture in Uganda - challenges and opportunities - Aquaculture in Uganda - challenges and opportunities -

2. Lake Katwe, W-Uganda

3. solar saltwork (salina) Port Araya, Venezuela Urmia Salt Lake Iran

4. 1 cm female brine shrimp male brine shrimp ARTEMIA

5. Artemia cyst accumulation on the beach of the Great Salt Lake (Utah-USA)

6. dehydrated Artemia cysts in dormancy state 0.5 mm

7. cyst in breaking stage

8. Artemia hatching instar I nauplius

9. established in 1978 upon suggestion of the FAO

10. Natural distribution of Artemia

11. Artemia dispersion birds - wind - man

12. N Brazil : first successful inoculation inoculation of Artemia franciscana in local saltwork April 1977 Macau, RN - Brasil

13. first harvest of Artemia cysts in Macau (RN-Brazil) in August 1977

15. Southeast Asia : monsoon climate

16. seasonal salt work in the Philippines

20. washing / cleaning of fresh cysts with saturated brine

22. As of early ’80s several new commercial sources of Artemia cysts

23. Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University, Belgium 1980 < 100 tons 1995 > 1,500 tons Artemia cyst consumption ornamental fish shrimp 1990 > 1,500 tons 1980 < 100 tons 2009 > 3,000 tons

24. Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, University of Ghent, Belgium

25. ARTEMIA biomass

26. 1980’s : biomass production and harvesting in seasonal saltponds in the Philippines and in Thailand use in nursery feeding of milkfish, sea bass, prawn and shrimp

27. biggest solar salt production in the world Bohai Bay

28. Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, University of Ghent, Belgium ARTEMIA biomass harvesting from salt ponds in PR China

29. Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, University of Ghent, Belgium ARTEMIA biomass feeding to shrimp ponds in PR China

30. Lake Katwe, W-Uganda

31. Crater lakes in W-Uganda

33. Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University, Belgium

39. FEED AND FEEDING FOR PANGASIUS SPECIES In Vietnam - Home-made feed - Rice bran, soybean meal, trash fish - Cooked and wet feed - Food conversion ratio: 3-4

40. Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University, Belgium Feasibility of Artemia production in saline lakes in W-Uganda cooperation project Mountains of the Moon University, Ghent University-Belgium and Can Tho University-Vietnam n Inventory/analytical phase - identification mission to W-Uganda crater lakes - hydrological data / water analyses - Artemia strain selection: lab and field testing n Training phase MMU staff to Mekong delta artisanal saltpond field in Vietnam n Testing/demonstration phase n “W-Uganda integrated aquaculture development” project proposal - Artemia farms (cooperatives) – cysts and biomass - fish hatcheries (use of fresh Artemia products): fry for Uganda farms and for export to neighboring countries - salt production for human consumption (UNIDO project) - cage farming of fish in crater lakes

41. Thank you, Excellency President Museveni