Question

What is the difference between capture Fishery and culture fishery?

Answer 1

Hint: Fishery refers to the practice of collecting fishes for economical purposes such as food and for scientific purposes, for by products such as oil, glue etc. Culture fishery and Capture fishery involves creating and capturing fishes respectively.

Complete answer:
Capture fishery is the method in which obtaining fish from natural resources with the help of crafts and gears while culture fishery is the method of rearing the preferred varieties of fish in specific water bodies and plucking according to the need.

Capture fishery	Culture fishery
It is a process of obtaining fish from natural resources such as ponds, rivers etc.	In this process it’s not obtaining from natural resources its growing and culturing and then capturing of fishes.
Special care is not required	But in culture fishery special care is required
Method to obtain from natural resources.	Obtaining from fish farming or water agriculture.
There is not seeding and raising of fish	The fish is seeded and reared
It is undertaken in both inland and marine water	It is undertaken mostly inland and near the sea shore.

Additional information:
There are some disadvantages of capture fishery- Keeping fish in close proximity increases the chances of disease, Fish farms can have a harmful effect on the local environment, many farmed fish-such as salmon, bass and cod-are carnivorous.

Note: In capturing fishes a very large amount of fishes’ cause pollution and other environmental factors that affect the fish yields. Culture fishes is a preferred method now a day’s culture fishery is also called aquaculture due to the rearing of a variety of aquatic animals other than fishes such as prawns, crabs etc.