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What is aquaculture?

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Question added by Roger Manere , Sales assistant, , Ciruelos Store
Date Posted: 2014/08/06

Aquaculture -- also known as fish or shellfish farming -- refers to the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of plants and animals in all types of water environments including ponds, rivers, lakes, and the ocean.  Researchers and aquaculture producers are "farming" all kinds of freshwater and marine species of fish, shellfish, and plants.  Aquaculture produces food fish, sport fish, bait fish, ornamental fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae, sea vegetables, and fish eggs

Adel Hassan Al Balushi
by Adel Hassan Al Balushi , Fish Hatchery Specialist , ministry of agriculture and fisheries wealth

it means :  rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food. it conducts maintenance, reproduction, water quality.

sont tous les activités de production animales et végétales dans un éspace halieutique 

Nkalubo Ronald
by Nkalubo Ronald , Fisheries inspector , Kampala Capital City Authority

Aquaculture is the rearing of fish in an artificial environment different from its natural one for example fish ponds. 

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