10.7910/DVN/TJZNOC Nabil A. Ibrahim Nabil A. Ibrahim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2007-7684 WorldFish Harvard Dataverse 2021 Medicine, Health and Life Sciences Feed conversion ratio (FCR) Production per feddan (Prod./ feddan) Net production per feddan (Net prod. / feddan) WorldFish WorldFish WorldFish WorldFish Nabil A. Ibrahim Nabil A. Ibrahim WorldFish Nasr-Allah, Ahmed Ahmed Nasr-Allah WorldFish 2019-07 2019 2021-01-08 2021-01-08 2025-02-06 Experimental data 20.500.12348/3751 64896 text/tab-separated-values 1.4 CC BY 4.0 WorldFish initiated a selective breeding program in Abbassa—Egypt to develop and produce the genetically improved Nile tilapia strain known as “Genetically Improved Abbassa Nile tilapia (GIANT)”, adopting the same technology used for the Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT), in Asia. WorldFish provided the Ninth Generation (G9) broodstock of the GIANT to 11 Broodstock Multiplication Centers (BMC’s) in five governorates; these centres then disseminated improved mixed‐sex fry to 160 tilapia hatcheries which supplied all‐male fry to 1,500 fish farms in 2017. SAS Egypt, Kafr El‐Sheikh, Egypt, Fayoum, Egypt, Behera, Egypt, Alexandria, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)