Aquaculture
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector around the world. It can be defined as " farming of aquatic organism mainly fin fishes, crustaceans, mollusks and seaweeds with some deliberate intentions to interfere in their life cycles".It not only provides the nutritious food to the millions of people but also offers job in main aquaculture and its subsidiary sectors like craft and gear, feed industry, fish processing,fish feed additive, chemicals and drugs and aquaculture sector. It has witnessed spectacular growth and transformed from traditional to semi-intensive and intensive aquaculture practices. It is practices in freshwater community ponds, rives,lakes, cold water upland lakes, reservoirs, canals, seasonal ponds, swamps, coastal, brackish, marine waters. In freshwater fishes in India Indian Major carps are the main species contributing to more than 80% of total freshwater fish production. Indian major carps (IMC) includes following three species namely
Exotic major carps species includes
These carps species are cultures in Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam mainly. They are fast growing, hardy fish species accepting wide range of feed having consumer demand to fetch good market price. The average per kilogram price of these fishes ranges from Rupees 150-250 kg in India.
Carps: Carps are toothless (absent in mouth but have teeth as pharyngeal ring) fishes having scales on their body but head. remain devoid of scales.
Their culture involves various steps like
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| Fish fingerlings rearing in pond- 1& 2 |
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