1. Aquaculture Unit
11th -12th Grade

2. Learning Targets I can identify 5 breeds of fish?
I can identify various ways to grow fish?

3. Aquaculture
Production of aquatic plants, animals, and other species.

4. Aqua crops
Commercially produced aquatic plants, animals, and other species.

5. Production Intensity
The number or weight of aquatic species in a volume of water.

6. Fish
Vertebrates, or animals with backbones.

7. Mollusks
Have thick, hard shells.
Ex. Shrimp, Oysters, Mussels

8. Crustaceans
Exoskeleton
Bottom Feeders

9. Water Facilities
The structures in which aqua crops are grown.

10. Ponds Water impoundments made by building earthen dams or levees.
1 acre – 50 acre ponds
20 acre average size.

11. Raceway Water impoundment that uses flowing water. Long and narrow
3’-4’ deep water

12. Tanks Made of plastic, fiberglass, concrete, and metal.
Often used for intensive fish culture.

13. Pens Confine fish in large bodies of water.
Pen: Bottom of the pen is joined with the earth in the pond, lake or stream.

14. Cages
Float on the surface of the water and do not touch the earth at the bottom.

15. Production Cycle
The complete production of a crop.

16. Brood fish
The sexually mature fish kept for reproduction

17. Spawning Nest
Container large enough for the pair of fish and provides some protection for the spawn.

18. Fingerling
An immature fish.

19. Fry
Young fish that at are larvae when they hatch.

20. Meal Food
Finely ground feed used with small fish.

21. Pellet Feed
Feed product made by binding meal into larger particles.

22. Hatchery
Place where eggs are artificially incubated and harvested.

23. Incubation
Time between spawning and when the young fish are hatched from the eggs.

24. Harvesting
Capturing the aqua crop so that it can be hauled and sold to a processing plant.

25. Catfish Popular for fish farms. .25-50acre ponds
Stocked at 1500 per acre

26. Bass Live in Lakes and Rivers
Cross of a female white bass and a male stripped bass.

27. Salmon Start in rivers and streams.
Will migrate to oceans to live until time to spawn.
Populations are in low numbers.

28. Tilapia 3rd most in production. Can handle dirty water
Sometimes used as a fish to cleanup after other fish.

29. Fresh Water Shrimp Weigh 4-6 ounces Shrimp are sold by the count.
Ex shrimp= per pound.
Like warm temps.
Grown in ponds

30. Fish for Fish Tanks