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The milkfish (Chanos chanos) is a widespread species of ray-finned fish found throughout the Indo-Pacific. It is the sole living species in the family Chanidae, and the only living member of the genus Chanos. [2][3][4] The repeating scientific name (tautonym) is from Greek khanos (χάνος ‘mouth’). [5][6] The species has many common names.
Fish farming. Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture, which is the controlled cultivation and harvesting of aquatic animals such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and so on, in natural or pseudo-natural ...
Hatcheries produce larval and juvenile fish and shellfish for transferral to aquaculture facilities where they are ‘on-grown’ to reach harvest size. Hatchery production confers three main benefits to the industry: 1. Out of season production Consistent supply of fish from aquaculture facilities is an important market requirement. [7]
World capture fisheries and aquaculture production by species group, from FAO's Statistical Yearbook 2021 [1]. This is a list of aquatic animals that are harvested commercially in the greatest amounts, listed in order of tonnage per year (2012) by the Food and Agriculture Organization.
v. t. e. Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture[1]), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus). Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations ...
A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial or recreational value. Fisheries can be wild or farmed. Population dynamics describes the ways in which a given population grows and shrinks over time, as controlled by birth, death, and migration. It is the basis for understanding changing ...
The presence of the invasive clown featherback in Laguna de Bay, possibly washed into the lake by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, reduced the native populations of Leiopotherapon plumbeus, bighead carp, milkfish, and Nile tilapia, among other species. Clown featherback are worth less than these species, so as their presence in catch has increased to ...
[16] [4] [10] Unfortunately, the tilapias multiplied to such an extent that they presented some serious competition to the milkfish being raised in the lagoon, [4] with no milkfish ever reaching a size suitable for harvest, that being some 20 cm (7.9 in) long. This led many fish farmers to give up the trade, as the tilapias themselves were not ...