paling murah pun RM450 satu kg!!!


EMPURAU SARAWAK!

KUCHING: LTT Aquaculture Sdn Bhd, a pioneer in the commercial breeding of empurau fish, will increase the export of Sarawak’s most highly priced freshwater fish.

Managing director Bill Lu Thian Tack said the company now exported an average of 100 live empurau to several restaurants in Peninsular Malaysia.

The company, which started culturing the fish four years ago in Asajaya farm in Samarahan Division, also supplies empurau (scientific name: Tor tambroides) to restaurants here.

“The retail price for empurau (weighing 1kg-1.5kg) is RM600 per kg. For sizes more than 2kg, it is RM750 a kg. Empurau is an exotic fish and people who like the fish never bargain on the price,” Lu told StarBiz.

The farm has some 300 brood stock, which each produces about 5,000 eggs twice a year to be hatched into fish fries for breeding.

“Empurau is a very slow growing fish. The growth is about 500g a year in the first three years. After reaching between 2kg and 3kg, it could grow faster at between 1kg and 2kg a year,” said Lu.

The exotic fish was found in abundance several decades ago in the upper reaches of the Rejang River in central Sarawak when the river was still unpolluted by logging activities.

Local fishermen around Kapit River have claimed to have caught empurau weighing between 50kg and 60kg.

Lu said empurau population in the wild had dwindled drastically and because of the limited catch, the fish now sold between RM400 and RM450 per kg in Kapit.

In the early 1970s, the fish was sold between RM15 and RM25 per kg in the local market.

On the taste of his cultured empurau, Lu claimed that it was about 95% close to the wild empurau.

“My own formulated feed for the fish is similar to what the empurau in the wild feed on. The feed is a mixture of enkabang fruit (illipe nut), fresh seawater fish, fish oil and vitamin C,” he added.

Lu said the special concrete ponds in his farm were built based on a combination of the Japanese and English pond systems with a good filter system, and that he had invested about RM500,000 in custom-made ozone processors that killed bacteria and algae, and improved the oxygen level in the ponds.

He said the ponds provided very good quality water that was essential for the empurau to breed well.

source : http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...20&sec=business

<--- price can be RM750 per kg!!!!
industri ikan sarawak... woooooooooooo sooo expensive fish!!

Najib Umum Peruntukan RM4.5 Juta Untuk Penyelidikan Ikan Empurau

BETONG, 11 April (Bernama) -- Kerajaan Persekutuan meluluskan peruntukan RM4.5 juta untuk penyelidikan ikan empurau, sejenis ikan air tawar yang hampir pupus di Sarawak.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan perkara itu pada majlis perjumpaan pemimpin bersama rakyat di gelanggang futsal pekan Spaoh, kira-kira 50km dari sini, Isnin.

"Ini supaya membolehkan ikan itu bukan sahaja dapat dinikmati oleh rakyat Sarawak tetapi juga oleh penduduk Semenanjung apabila ia dihasilkan dengan banyaknya kelak," katanya.

Harga seekor ikan empurau matang seberat tiga kilogram boleh mencecah antara RM2,800 hingga RM3,000. Ikan berkenaan hidup di hulu sungai berair jernih kini hampir pupus disebabkan oleh pencemaran alam sekitar.

source : http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=578047

This post has been edited by hack3line: Apr 12 2011, 07:36 PM

ikan gapi goreng tak sodap.. kocik!!