Lake Harvest is the largest tilapia producer in Africa providing sustainable reared fish (Photo: Lake Harvest)

An Exceptional Natural Habitat for Tilapia

Lake Harvest is the largest fish producer in Africa. The company's tilapia fish farms are situated within a National Park on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe – Africa’s inland sea of pristine water. This lake is protected from heavy industry, giving Lake Harvest’s fish the benefit of a natural habitat, surrounded by spectacular scenery and wildlife.

Lake Harvest leads the way in tropical cage culture technology

Lake Harvest ensures the high quality of its fish through a combination of sustainable farming techniques and state of the art equipment. The company has a complete control of the process from feed ingredients and breeding through to delivery of the delicious fish fillets.

Lake Harvest offers unrivalled traceability and consistent food security. Lake Harvest’s fish has no additives, preservatives, GMOs or antibiotics.

The feed used for the tilapia is cereal based and contains no GMO crops

The company feeds its fish a balanced, almost wholly vegetarian, diet that is made on site under its own supervision. The small proportion of fishmeal is sourced from a sustainable fishery. Lake Harvest intends to completely phase out the fishmeal and this is currently being researched.

Lake Harvest leads the way in tropical cage culture technology and they design and make all its own cages. All fish waste is used to feed the local crocodile farm.

Lake Harvest chose Lake Kariba for its exceptional water quality and natural habitat for tilapia. The lake is fed from the spectacular Victoria Falls and has neither industries nor significant populations that could possibly cause contamination.

Kariba is unique, a place of outstanding beauty, with its lake setting and the majestic backdrop of mountains

The lake, one of the world’s largest man-made reservoirs, is over 220 kilometres long and up to 40 kilometres in width. It covers an area of 5,580 square kilometres and its storage capacity is an immense 185 cubic kilometres. The average depth of the lake is 29 metres.

Before Lake Kariba was filled, the existing vegetation was burned, creating a thick layer of fertile soil on land that would become the lake bed. As a result the ecology of Lake Kariba is vibrant.

Lake Harvest can think of no better place to be based. Lake Harvest aims to achieve 20,000 tonnes of tilapia production per annum by the end 2014 at Lake Kariba.

Lake Harvest has breeding and juvenile ponds at Bugungu Farm near Jinja, small cages in Lake Victoria, Uganda

SON Fish Farm Ltd is part of the Lake Harvest group and is based on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Established in 2005, SON has successfully completed a pilot project and on-the-job staff training programme and is now expanding to become a large scale tilapia farm. SON currently employs over 50 people and has an experienced start-up management team. Pond construction work began in mid 2005 and the company now has breeding and juvenile ponds at Bugungu Farm near Jinja, small cages in Lake Victoria and manufactures its own feed on site.

Lake Harvest tilapia farm facilities in Uganda

SON aims to achieve 3,000 tonnes of tilapia production per annum by the end of 2012 and 10,000 tonnes by 2018. The company has a strong emphasis on health and safety, sustainability and community projects.

About Lake Harvest

Lake Harvest was formed in 1997 to produce high quality tilapia for the European and Southern Africa markets

As the largest fish producer in Africa, Lake Harvest is committed to providing sustainable reared fish and strives to be a leader in social, commercial and environmental terms.

Lake Harvest is the first tilapia farm in Africa that met the new International Standards for Responsible Tilapia Aquaculture (ISRTA) in September last year. These global standards are designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced and have been set by GLOBALG.A.P.

Source: Lake Harvest

Margaret E.L. Stacey
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