A Manual for Rural Freshwater Aquaculture

Abstract

The definition of aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, mollusks, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some sort of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as through regular stocking, feeding or protection from predators. Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated. The definition does not include fisheries, which is the harvesting of organisms from the wild of which there is no ownership or intended intervention to increase production. Hydroponics is the culture of terrestrial plants in water instead of soil and is not considered as aquaculture.