PRACTICES AND SYSTEM OF

CULTURE (FISHERIES AND

AQUACULTURE)
Discussants:
Jasmin S. Sayson
Lara Jane B. Tañamor
FISHERIES
 It is the enterprise of raising or breeding fish and
other aqua life. It exists for the purpose of
providing human foods.

AQUACULTURE
 Is the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of fish,
shellfish, algae, and other organisms in all types
of water environment.
CLASSIFICATION OF FISH CULTURE
SYSTEM
On the basis of culture
Monoculture
 Raising only one species of fish in available
water body. E.g., raising of anyone of tilapia,
rainbow trout, cat fish etc.
Mono-sex Culture
 Raising of either male or female single fish
species. It is practiced for maintaining breeding
male and female fish.
EXAMPLE OF MONOCULTURE & MONO-SEX CULTURE
ADVANTAGES
 Cultivation practice such as feeding, disease diagnosis and
treatment is easier for example feeding is easier for single
species due to uniform feeding habit.
 Typical characteristic of fish can be study more accurately.

DISADVANTAGES
 Productivity of pond not fully utilized.
 Market supply cannot be fulfilled and more risky.
POLYCULTURE
 Culturing two or more than two
species. E.g., rearing of bighead carp
and grass carp.

POLY-SEX CULTURE
 Either male or female of two or more
species is reared. E.g., male of rohu,
naini and bhakur on same pond.
ROHU BHAKUR

NAINI
ADVANTAGES
 Productivity of pond is fully utilized
 Yield per unit area is higher
 Less risky

DISADVANTAGES
 Cultivation practices is difficult
 Selective harvesting is difficult
 Costly and labor intensive
ON THE BASIS OF ENCLOSURE

Pond Fish Culture

 Pond culture is a very popular aquaculture
production method with many aquatic species
cultured in ponds. To have successful pond
production, ponds must be properly sited and
built, with careful assessment of water
availability, quantity, and quality.
POND FISH CULTURE
Of red tilapia
CAGE FISH CULTURE
 Cage culture uses existing water resources
(ponds, rivers, estuaries, open ocean, etc.) but
confines the fish inside some type of mesh
enclosure. The mesh retains the fish, making it
easier to feed, observe and harvest them.
ON THE BASIS OF DENSITY
Intensive fish farming system
 In the most extensive fish farming, the fish feed
entirely from the food web within the pond, which
may be enhanced by the addition of fertilizer or
manure.
Semi intensive fish farming system
 The fish still obtain significant nutrition from the
food web within their pond, but they are also given
supplementary feed. This means the fish can grow
faster or to a larger size or at a greater stocking
density.
EXTENSIVE FISH FARM
 The fish are kept at too high a stocking density to
obtain significant amounts of feed from their
environment. Instead the fish are dependent on
the feed provided and water must be replenished
at a high rate to maintain oxygen levels and
remove waste. 
ON THE BASIS OF INTEGRATION

Rice Cum Fish Farming

 Rice farming with- fish culture is a type of duo
culture farming system in which rice is the sole
enterprise and fishes are taken to initiate
additional for extra income.
EXAMPLE OF RICE CUM FISH FARMING
TYPES OF PADDY FIELD FOR INTEGRATED SYSTEM:
1. Perimeter type: The paddy growing area may be
placed at the middle with moderate elevation and
ground sloping on all sides into perimeter trenches
to facilitate easy drainage.
2. Central type: Paddy growing area is on the
fringe with slopes towards the middle.
3. Lateral trench type: Trenches are prepared on
one or both lateral sides of the moderately sloping
paddy field.
Suitable rice varieties for integrated system:
 Radha

 CH-45
 Sabitri

 Ramdhan
 Mansuli
 Janaki
CULTURAL SPECIES OF FISH IN RICE FIELD
 The fish species which could be cultured in rice
fields must be capable of tolerating shallow water
(>15 cm depth), high temperature (up to 35
degree C), low dissolved oxygen and high
turbidity.
ADVANTAGES
 Economical utilization of land
 Saving on labor cost towards weeding and
supplemental
 Additional income and diversified harvest such as
fish and rice from water and onion, bean and
sweet potato through cultivation on bunds
 Tilapia and common carp control the unwanted
aquatic weeds which may otherwise reduce rice
yield up to 50%
 Insect pests of rice like stem borers are controlled
by fish feeding on them mainly by murrels and
catfishes
 Fish feed on the aquatic intermediate host such as
malaria causing mosquito larvae, thereby
controlling water-born diseases of human beings.
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