Aquaculture Methods and Practices

• An aquaculture production system made of a floating frame, net materials, and mooring system.

  Cage Culture
• One of the commercially important methods of intensive aquaculture. These are the rectangular wooden framed floating on the water.

  Raft Culture
• Refers to small enclosures used for confinement or safe keeping of domestic animals.

  Pen Culture
• The culture of fish in meshed boxes are placed in water is called cage culture.
• The culture of fish in meshed boxes placed in water.

  Cage Culture
• Where are fixed cages installed in?

  Running Water
• An enclosure system used to partition areas of an open aquatic body.

  Nylon-Net Barriers
• Refers to the culture of either all male or all female populations, a sought-after approach in aquaculture.

  Monosex
• Refers to raising and breeding aquatic animals (fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish, etc.)

  Freshwater Culture
• A shallow coastal inlet or bay that fills and with water as the tide rises and falls. Often characterized by tidal flats and marshes.

  Tidal Ponds
• Also called "Marine Ponds", as they are filled with saltwater like the sea, and contain some of the same species.

  Saltwater Ponds