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  2. Freshwater prawn farming - Wikipedia

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    A farmer constructing a shrimp farm in Pekalongan, Indonesia. A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawns or shrimp 1 for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming.

  3. Aquaponics - Wikipedia

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    Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish, snails or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants.

  4. Aquaculture of brine shrimp - Wikipedia

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    Brine shrimp have the ability to produce dormant eggs, known as cysts. This has led to the extensive use of brine shrimp in aquaculture . The cysts may be stored for long periods and hatched on demand to provide a convenient form of live feed for larval fish and crustaceans .

  5. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture - Wikipedia

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    Typically, carnivorous fish or shrimp occupy IMTA's higher trophic levels. They excrete soluble ammonia and phosphorus (orthophosphate). Seaweeds and similar species can extract these inorganic nutrients directly from their environment. [1] [3] [5] Fish and shrimp also release organic nutrients which feed shellfish and deposit feeders. [5] [26 ...

  6. Aquaculture - Wikipedia

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    The global annual production of freshwater prawns (excluding crayfish and crabs) in 2007 was about 460,000 tonnes, exceeding 1.86 billion dollars. [46] Additionally, China produced about 370,000 tonnes of Chinese river crab. [47] In addition astaciculture is the freshwater farming of crayfish (mostly in the US, Australia, and Europe). [48]

  7. Shrimp farming - Wikipedia

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    The gate of a traditional shrimp farm in Kerala, India which uses the tide to harvest shrimp. Shrimp farming is a form of aquaculture that takes place in marine or freshwater environments, producing shrimp or prawns [Note 1] (crustaceans of the groups Caridea or Dendrobranchiata) for human consumption.

  8. List of commercially important fish species - Wikipedia

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    Akiami paste shrimp Acetes japonicus: Wild 588,761 One of 14 species in the genus Acetes, this small, krill-like prawn is used to produce shrimp paste in South East Asia. Gulf menhaden Brevoortia patronus: Wild 578,693 Indian oil sardine Sardinella longiceps: Wild 560,145 Black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus: Cultivated 495,074 European anchovy

  9. Raceway (aquaculture) - Wikipedia

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    A raceway farm for freshwater fin fish usually has a dozen or more parallel raceway strips build alongside each other, with each strip consisting of 15 to 20 or more serial sections. [16] The risk of unhygienic conditions increases towards the lower level sections, and can be kept in check by ensuring there are not too many sections and the ...

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