Aquaculture Vocabulary Unit 1

Coldwater

32-69 degrees Fahrenheit.

Warmwater

70-110 degrees Fahrenheit.

Aquifer

A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.

Processing

All of the procedures to prepare a product of aquaculture for consumption.

Larvae

An immature form that must undergo change of appearance or pass through a metamorphic stage to reach the adult state.

Marketing Functions

Assembling, grading, hauling, processing, packaging, storing, wholesaling, retailing advertising, and changing ownership.

Broodstock

Broodstock, or broodfish, are a group of mature individuals used in aquaculture for breeding purposes.

Salinity

Concentration of sodium, potassium, magnesium calcium, bicarbonate, carbonate, sulfate and halides.

Self-feeders

Device that allows animals the choice of when to receive feed.

Grow-out

Facilities that produce crops (fish) from the seed.

Seed

Fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant; any part of a plant that will reproduce including tubers and bulbs; offspring or progeny.

Topping

Harvesting only those fish that have grown to marketable size.

Fisheries

Is the place where they raised many different species of fish.

Types of Processing

Minimal medium, and value-added.

Hatchery

Produce the seed or young fish.

Monoculture

Raising a single species in a pond or enclosure.

Mariculture

Raising of organisms in the ocean.

Polyculture

Raising two or more species in the same pond or enclosure.

Aquaculture

The art, science, and business of cultivating plants and animals in water.

Agriculture

The art, science, and business of producing every kind of plant and animal useful to humans.

Spawn

The mass of eggs deposited in the water by fishes, amphibians, and other aquatic animals; to deposit eggs or sperm.

Eggs

The mature female germ cell, ovum.

Husbandry

The occupation or business of farming.

Hydroponics

The process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil.

Aquaponics

The process of growing plants in water with other fish, or animals.

Harvesting

The process or period of gathering in crops.

Fingerlings

The stage in a fish's life between one inch and the length at one year of age.

Incubate

To maintain at a favorable temperature and in other conditions promoting development of eggs until they hatch.

Freshwater

Water containing less than .05 percent total dissolved salts by weight.

Culture

the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

Total Harvest

when all of stock is removed from a culture system such as a pond.

Partial Harvest

when only a proportion of stock is removed from a culture system such as a pond.

Brackish Water

a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.

Functions

activities that must be performed in the production of aquatic crops.

Intensive Systems

any system of housing poultry where the birds are indoors all of the time and do not have access to the outside. It usually entails higher stocking densities.

Extensive Systems

any system of housing poultry where the birds are outdoors all of the time and do not have access to the inside.