Aquaculture is growing at a faster rate than agriculture, as scientists and food producers look for more diverse ways to feed the world’s population. So, it’s easy to see how learning about fish farming (aquaculture) and combining hydroponics with fish (aquaponics), can be interesting to both enthusiastic amateurs and professionals alike.
This eBook is the ultimate guide to freshwater aquaculture and aquaponics and introduces the reader to the biology, anatomy and physiology of fish, plus the scope and potential of this food producing area.
Learn about how to farm trout, catfish, perch and other freshwater fish in this informative publication.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO AQUACULTURE
What is aquaculture?
Pisciculture, aquaponics, aquaculture or aquaria
Commercial aquaculture systems
Land-based freshwater aquaculture
Could farmed fish from closed systems be better?
Which fish is best?
CHAPTER 2 FISH BIOLOGY FISH ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Digestive system
Pathology
Predation
Reproduction and genetics
CHAPTER 3 TROUT
Rainbow trout
Brown trout (Salmo trutta)
CHAPTER 4 CATFISH
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
Eel tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus)
Straight backed catfish (Neosilurus hyrtlii)
CHAPTER 5 PERCHES
Golden perch (Macquaria ambigua)
Jade perch (Scortum barcoo)
Redfin or english perch (Perca fluviatillis)
Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)
Silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus)
Spangled perch (Leiopotherapon unicolor)
Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum)
CHAPTER 6 OTHER FISH
Bream
Wuchang bream (Megalobrama amblycephala)
Common bream (Abramis brama)
Black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri)
Bass
Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Australian bass (Macquaria novemaculeata)
Carp
Eels (Anguilla spp) - short-finned eel, silver eel, yellow eel
Milkfish (Chanos chanos)
Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii)
Snakeheads
Northern snakehead (Channa argus)
Roach
Saratoga
Saratoga (Scleropages leichardti)
Northern saratoga (Scleropages jardini)
Silver barbel (Schilbe intermedius)
Sleepy cod (Oxyeleotris lineolata)
Sooty grunter or black bream (Hephaestus fuliginosus)
Sturgeon (Acipenser and Huso)
Tench (Tinca tinca)
Tilapia (Oreochromis spp)
Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus)
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