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Durante fish industries Ltd
is Nigeria’s leading service provider to the fish farming industry. With our technical know-how and our willingness to share knowledge we have stimulated and expanded the industry in Nigeria. Nigeria and Durante fish are now internationally recognized for its success in Aquaculture Fish feed
we introduced high quality imported extruded floating feed into Nigeria 10 years ago. We are the sole and exclusive distributor of Skretting feeds, one of the largest fish feed companies in the world. At present we import 7200 tons per annum (2009) a paid expansion from 2008(4600tons). Sales are expected to further rise.
We also produce a high quality pelletized fish feed in Nigeria which is an economical of the imported feed .last year’s sale was 2000tons.
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Table sized Catfish
We produce 1,000tons per annum of table size catfish for consumption expansion of our oyo farm is already underway which will take our production to over 1500tons; making us an important player in catfish farming in West Africa
Hatchery section
We are one of the largest commercial catfish hatchery in West-Africa. We produce over 4 million high quality fingerlings and juveniles per year , supply to thousands of farmers all over Nigeria and neighboring countries we have introduced a specialized tilapia hatchery to produce all male tilapia using super male technology . This is gaining popularity as is likely to spread across West Africa.
Tilapia
We have recently started a tilapia project, which aims at getting Nigerian farmers to farm another species than catfish. We have partnered with Til- aqua International in the Netherlands and together we supply all male red and wild type tilapia fingerlings to farmers. We have grown table size tilapia on our farm in oyo and expansion of the farm is underway.
Farm construction and consultancy
We have been responsible for the design and construction of many successful catfish farms in Nigeria most of the large commercial farms have had direct help from us. That can be in setting up hatcheries, recirculation systems, consultancy, feed supplies. |
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