Question

What is the meaning of the term aquaculture? Name any three animals which can be
cultured by this method.

Answer 1

Hint: Animal husbandry is a practice of breeding and raising livestock. It includes
breeding and raising several animals like cows, buffaloes, pigs, falls, bees, fishes, and many more.

Complete answer: The fisheries industry of catching, processing and selling fishes. It also deals with shellfishes and other aquatic animals. Both freshwater and marine fishes are considered
in this method. In recent years, we have developed the fisheries industry in order to increase food production to balance with the increasing population.
Aquaculture is the process of raising aquatic animals like fishes, shellfishes, and even aquatic plants. It is also known as pisciculture. By using modern technology and other resources, we have been able to increase the production and distribution of the fisheries industry by several folds. The increased production of this industry in the past years is popularly known as the blue revolution.
We can cultivate several freshwater fishes in aquaculture. Catla, Rohu, Tilapia, Singhi are some of them.
Marine fishes are also cultivated like Shark, Hilsa, Sardine, Mackerel, and Pomfrets. The Pearl spot and Mullet are examples of the estuarine fishes that are cultivated by farmers of the fisheries industry.

Note: Increase in production of food happened on a large scale as a result of advancement
in technologies. We often use certain terms to denote the advancements of these industries. An increase in milk production is known as the white revolution whereas, an increase in egg production is called the silver revolution. The green revolution is the term used for indicating the advancements in the increase of plant breeding that resulted in giving high yields for our farmers.