aquaculture
- Also called:
- fish farming, fish culture, or mariculture
- Key People:
- Modadugu Gupta
- Related Topics:
- commercial fishing
- oyster
- mussel
- shrimp
- ocean ranching
aquaculture, the propagation and husbandry of aquatic plants, animals, and other organisms for commercial, recreational, and scientific purposes. Aquaculture is an approximate aquatic equivalent to agriculture—that is, the rearing of certain marine and freshwater organisms to supplement the natural supply. This includes production for supplying other aquaculture operations, for providing food and industrial products, for stocking sport fisheries, for supplying aquatic bait animals, for stocking fee-fishing operations, for providing aquatic organisms for ornamental purposes, and for supplying feedstocks to the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. These activities can occur worldwide. Aquaculture has been in existence since at least 500 bce. However, ...(100 of 2663 words)
