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  Friday, May 9th
 
 
 
 

 
 
Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory works with CODEP
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Haiti Fund, Inc.
New Bern, NC
May 18, 2007

Haiti Fund, Inc. is blessed to have Nick Warren from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA to join the CODEP staff as a visiting advisor for the fish project. Nick and co-worker Bill Mebane were at L’Acul for a fish management seminar in April. They met with all the Nick from Woods Hole Marine Biological LabCODEP animators and toured the existing fish program in the mountains, which has over 50 cement ponds. They helped Rick drain the ponds at L’Acul and set up a nursery for restocking the CODEP them.

Nick returned for the month of May to encourage and train the CODEP leaders in preparing their ponds so that they will not be dependent upon commercial fish food. This is being accomplished by installing natural apparatuses made from bamboo and coconut fronds which will grow periphyton and produce enough food to not only sustain fish but is comparable to ponds where fish food is fed regularly. This has been proven already in the demonstration ponds at L’Acul. There is much excitement in the mountains with this new technique and we should see a marked difference in fish production because of the education and demonstrations that Nick is providing.

Anyone interested in knowing more about Nick’s project here and at MBL can check out these web sites: