EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pisciculture is the breeding, hatching, and rearing of fish in pond tanks and artificial reservoirs under controlled conditions. It is also called fish farming. It is a scientific technology for getting maximum fish production from a pond by artificial feeding.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pisciculture is the scientific way of rearing fish in natural or artificial water bodies. Natural water bodies like ponds, estuaries and paddy fields are used to rear fishes for commercial purposes. Artificial bodies like wells and tanks are also used for pisciculture.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pisciculture is a process of growing fish and selling it or using its products for domestic or commercial use. Fish can be grown both in salt water or fresh water. Pisciculture is just culturing of fish or fish farming to obtain fish products. Pisciculture provides us fish for food, cod liver oil etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, usually for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.

Detailed explanation-5: -The essential difference between aquaculture and pisciculture is that aquaculture is the process of breeding, rearing and harvesting of aquatic flora and fauna with commercial value in saltwater or freshwater while pisciculture is the culturing of fish (fish farming) to obtain fish and fish products as food.