Three-month fingerlings will be stocked in grow-out ponds. That is a rectangular pond with the average area of 1ha, the depth of 3-5 metres. The pond edge is at least 0.5 metre higher than flood peak of the year to avoid being flooded. Each pond has twoo gates, one responsible for water intake, the other for drainage.

How many times a day is Pangasius fed? Two times ("breakfast" at 8-10 a.m. and "dinner" at 2-4 p.m.) A 1-kilo fish has to feed on about 1.6 kilos of feed until harvest time. Farmed Pangasius feeds on what? In the past they were fed with home-made feed at floating cages, but now they are fed with "pelleted fast food" which is supplied by professional feed producers.

After approximately six months of farming, farmed Pangasius will weigh about 1-1.2 kilos. and this is the time every farmer looks forward to - harvest farmed fish!!!

Fish is harvested by enclosing with net and moving to dedicated vessels to transport to processing plants. These vessels are very special because they are mobile huge water reservoirs in which about 20.000-25.000 fish can swim freely. Fish is still alive and healthy when arriving at the plant until ... That's another story about the processing plant.