AQUA VISTA FARM AND RESORT

Aqua vista( Aqua means “water and Vista means a pleasant view”) fish farm and resort is located at Anantigha village no.1 Mesembe close, Calabar south local government area. It was set up in 1996 by Chief Dr Oscar Umoh, as a resort and recreation ground for family and friends. 

It is a non-governmental organization (NGO) establishment and a profit oriented body where fishes are cultivated for profit purpose. Indeed Aqua Vista has been blessed by nature with natural endowment such as natural lakes, lagoon which flow from the Atlantic Ocean, the freshness of the environment, ever green pasture, palm trees, and other species of fauna such as mud skipper.

Mode of operation and major activities:

Aqua Vista farm and resort as the name implies deal with the cultivation of fishes such as the tilapia (Oreochromis nilticus ) cat fish(Clarias gariepinus) and mud fishes(Neochanna galaxiidae) as well as selling of fishes.  Aqua vista also provides a learning environment which is its educational purposes. It serves as a recreational and tourist center for visitors.  It is ideal for people that love and appreciate the beauty of nature and those who seek places to meditate. Aqua Vista farms and resort was designed as an “agro-tourism enterprise” and combines a working fish farm with an eco-tourism experience in a way that the adventurous and unpretentious are to enjoy.  In aqua vista fish farm, the tilapia fishes were usually breed in a natural pond and the cat fishes were breed in an artificial pond .Artificial fertilization of cat fish is also carried out and it involves  series of stages from the egg-fry-fingerlings-juveniles-table size cat fishes. They have a hartchery were the egs are often hatched. The fishes are feed with fish feeds called coppens which are composed of vegetables, proteins, anti-oxidants( vitamin C), cereal or derivatives, essential amino acids, esential  vitamins, minerals and trace elements. 

In Aqua Vista, the compound has a natural fish pond that is about 13 hectares in size and the pond is fed with water from a river source of that are river fed with rhythmic tidal flows
The successful nature of this facility is due to their geographical location which is the tropical rain forest zone. It rains much in this area which checkmates the idea of alternative source of water. This establishment plays a vital role in both recreational and refreshment ground for consumers, which also provide an enabling environment for students and other researchers