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Fish farming 101: do you know the best performing fish species generating billions of dollars each year? Find out now!

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salmon sales in 2018 was valued at 13.75 billion euros What is Fish Farming Fish farming is a major type of aquaculture, and it is the farming of freshwater and saltwater fish in commercial tanks and enclosures such as ponds, for food or/and commercial purposes. Pisciculture is defined as the rearing, breeding and transplantation of fish by artificial means for food. Many fish farming operations are grouped under pisciculture, while other fish farming operations are grouped under mariculture. Fish farming just like the name implies, involves raising fish at a subsistence level or in commercial tanks and enclosures. Fish farming is grouped into 3 categories namely: 1. Freshwater 2. Brackish water 3. Saltwater. freshwater fish Freshwater fish farming: Freshwater fish farming refers to rearing and breeding freshwater fish species for economic purposes using equipments such as ponds, reservoirs, and tanks. Natural resources commonly used in freshwater aquaculture includes lakes, rivers...
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What is Aquaculture

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Photo credit:  pixabay.com Aquaculture 101 Aquaculture is simply the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae and other aquatic organisms. Aquaculture includes cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish. It is less commonly spelled aquiculture and is also known as aqua farming. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), aquaculture “is understood to mean the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming also implies some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators, etc. Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated’’. It is reported that in 2014 the global aquaculture industry supplied over one half of the fish and shellfish that was/is still direct...
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Best Aquaculture Systems

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Photo credit: https://pixabay.com Aquaculture Systems Majorly Practiced In this article I will be analyzing the two main fish farming systems namely extensive and intensive fish farming systems and in the process of analyzing I will look at the peculiarities which make one different from the other. I have written other articles where I explained what aquaculture is and I also have an article written about fish farming , so for those who may be wondering what aquaculture or fish farming really is, please read my other articles on the subject matter. So now without wasting more time let us begin. The major fish farming systems in practice are extensive and intensive fish farming systems, although some may identify a third which is semi intensive. This semi intensive fish farming system is somewhere in between extensive and intensive fish farming and sometimes may combine elements from both systems.  However the wildly practiced and accepted systems by professi...
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