GEOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

GROUNDWATER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is the cultivation of fish or shellfish in artificial ponds.
A
Hydroponics
B
Ichthy-culture
C
Agriculture
D
Aquaculture
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The farming of fish is the most common form of aquaculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks, fish ponds, or ocean enclosures, usually for food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aquaculture: The farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some sort of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pisciculture is the scientific way of rearing fish in natural or artificial water bodies.

Detailed explanation-4: -aquaculture, also called fish farming, fish culture, or mariculture, the propagation and husbandry of aquatic plants, animals, and other organisms for commercial, recreational, and scientific purposes.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two methods are commonly used, release and bagging. In both cases, oysters are cultivated onshore to the size of spat, when they can attach themselves to a substrate. They may be allowed to mature further to form ‘seed oysters’. In either case, they are then placed in the water to mature.

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