AQUACULTURE & ITS IMPORTANCE

WHAT IS AQUACULTURE ?

1. ADVANTAGES OF AQ. CULTURE

 Reduce the pressure in fisheries grounds
 Maintenance of stock
 Supplying of good quality materials
 Continuous supply

2. SCOPE
 Natural & artificial ponds and water bodies.
 Favourable climate
 Economically important species (fish, crustaceaqns, molluscs)

3. AQUACULTURE & JOB OPPORTUNITY

 Finding & catching
 Maintenance of farms
 Hatching etc.

4. AQUACULTURE & BUSINESS OPPORTINITY

 Aquaculture products
 Feed manufacturers
 Fish clinics
 Aqua byproducts
 Equipments and mechanics

5. AQUACULTURE TECHNIQUES
 FISHES, CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSCS

6. TECHNIQUES
(A) TECHNIQUE BASED ON FARMING
(a) Complete farming (eggs to fully grown animals)
(b) Restricted farming (one or more stages of growth of
animals)
(c) Extensive farming (cultivated in natural condition using
natural food)
(d) Intensive farming (cultured on artificial or supplied
feed in natural or artificial water bodies).
 (B) TECHNIQUE BASED ON SPECIES
(a) Monoculture (single type of animals) arius
battracus, heteropnestus fossilis
(b) Poly or composite culture (more than one
species)
(c) Mono-sex culture

7. FACTORS CONTROLLING AQ.CUL.

 Texture of the farming area
 Construction layout
 Type and number of ponds
 Biology of organism (spawning, growth, food)
 Stocking capacity
 Transportation & marketing

8. LARGE SCALE FARMING

 Self sufficient
 Hatching, nursery (for fry), rearing tanks (fingerlings), stocking tanks

9. PHYSICO-CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL FACTORS

 TEMPERATURE : SALMON 10 c OTHER 22-37 c

 TURBIDITY :
 LIGHT :
 DEAPTH OF WATER
 SALINITY
 NUTRIENTS
 PLANKTON
 Ph
 Weeds
 Pathogens