Terminology
The growing of animals in water.
What is aquaculture?
One of three major areas where fish were grown in captivity in ancient times.
What is China, Egypt, or Rome?
The percentage of the world consumption of fish that comes from farm production.
What is 10-11%?
The name of fish that supply eggs for production.
What is brood?
Native to North Africa and the Mediterranean, these fish have been in production since the time of the ancient pyramids.
What is tilapia?
The net used to harvest fish.
What is a seine?
The most popularly grown fish in the world.
What is carp?
The percentage of protein that a fish needs for food.
What is around 35%?
The name for new fish when catfish eggs hatch.
What is "sac fry"?
These fish are most likely the first fish grown in captivity.
What is carp?
Water than flows across the ground after a rain.
What is Runoff?
The depth of ponds used to produce catfish.
What is 4-6 feet deep?
The percentage of edible body weight in a trout.
What is as much as 85%?
Small fish stocked in ponds.
What are finglerlings?
These fish have smooth skin rather than scales.
What are catfish?
The artificial spawning of fish.
What is milking ?
This type of food allows the producer to observe the catfish.
What is pelleted?
The potential number of eggs that a 10lb female catfish may deposit.
What is 40,000?
A long concrete structure that provide a constant movement of water.
What is a raceway?
They come in a variety of species, including brook, brown and rainbow.
What is a trout?
The layer of a body where warmer water separates from cooler water.
What is thermocline?
This invasion of this mollusk impacted the yellow perch once thriving in the US Great Lakes Region.
What is a Zebra Mollusk?
The upper temperature threshold for trout to survive.
What is below 65 Degrees F?
One of the biggest disadvantages of aquaculture.
What is marketing?
A variety of carp found in Japan.
What is Koi?