AGRI-FISHERY ARTS

FISHERY ART

Chapter I BASIC CONCEPT OF FISHERY

Lesson 2 Branches of Fishery

BRANCHES OF FISHERY

There are 3 branches of fishery and they are follows:

1. Fish Culture – the human effort of raising the maximum productivity of fish and other
fishery aquatic products and maintaining the supply of these products to satisfy human
needs.
2. Fish Capture – branch of fishery science deals with the scientific method of catching
fish as well and the type of fishing gear used.
3. Fish Preservation – branch of fishery science that deals with the scientific method of
preserving fish and other fishery aquatic products to prevent spoilage.

BRANCHES OF FISHERY ARTS OVERVIEW

Fish Culture

Fish culture is an art and science of raising, rearing and propagating of fish and other
aquatic products under controlled or semi-controlled environment. It is primarily practice for
the support and sustenance to human needs for consumption.

Fish culture under controlled condition is one undertaken in an aquarium, tank, hapa,
fish cage, pen or pond.
 Fish culture has three major phases: fish propagation, fish cultivation and fish
conservation.

Fish Propagation is defined as the natural or artificial method of promoting or

enhancing reproduction and survival of fish and other aquatic products. It includes keeping,
maintaining and spawning breeders in tanks or ponds, hatching the eggs in hatchery
facilities, and nursing the delicate larvae up to size suitable for stocking in the grow-our or
rearing areas.

Fish Cultivation simply means the rearing of fish and other aquatic products from
very young stage like fry and fingerlings, to marketable size. It is done in fresh, brackish and
marine waters in any of the rearing contraptions or structures. The other types of sub-
classification based on the techniques applied and financial investments, namely: extensive,
semi-intensive and intensive.

 Extensive Fish Farming

The fish feed entirely from the food web within the pond, which may be enhanced
by the addition of the fertilizer or manure.

 Semi-Intensive Fish Farming

The fish still obtain significant nutrition from the food web within their pond, but
they are also given supplementary feed.

 Intensive Fish Farming

The fish are kept at too high a stocking density to obtain significant amount of
feed from their environment.

Fish Conservation is the public control and various maintenances of the various
fisheries where fish and other fishery products are deprived. It work should be designed to
insure maximum sustainable yield of fish. For instance, the continuous use of fishpond
without proper maintenance, like applying fertilizer, lowers the productivity of the soil. It
lessens the capacity of fish to reproduce.
Fish Capture

Fish Capture is a rule or principle of capturing or operating methods of fish and

carried out distinct means with some regularity. It includes the fishing gears, technologies
and equipment for systematic capturing.

Fish Preservation

It is any operation that can prevent or inhibit the natural process of breakdown or
decomposition taking place in the fish. It is known as fish processing.