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Question: What is pisciculture? a. Putting cattle to farm work. b. Activities are undertaken to save pand...
What is pisciculture?
a. Putting cattle to farm work.
b. Activities are undertaken to save pandas from extinction.
c. Bringing up lions in a zoo.
d. Production of fishes.
Solution
Hint: breeding and rearing are done under pisciculture.
Complete step-by-step answer:
Additional Information:
1. Pisciculture plays a major role in the economy of aquatic farmers.
2. The term pisciculture explains catching, processing, fish farming and marketing of fishes, prawns, lobsters, crabs, mussels and oysters.
3. Pisciculture can be performed as Inland fishery, marine fishery and estuarine fishery.
4. Inland fishery refers to fisheries within the inland aquatic areas like lakes, dams and rivers.
5. Marine fishery refers to fishery within the oceans and seas of the world.
6. Estuarine fishery refers to fishery within a semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea and within which seawater is measurably diluted with freshwater derived from the land drainage.
So the correct answer is 'Production of fishes'.
Note: Pisciculture is known as fish farming, it is the principal form of aquaculture.