Aquaculture
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Fish breeding in the pond farming industry
What is the rule for almost all livestock, whether pigs, cows or poultry, still remains until this day the exception with fish as a healthy source of nutrition, namely sustained production in breeding plants to conserve wild stocks.
And this despite the fact that fish have been bred successfully for decades. The origins lay in so-called pond farming, the breeding of inland fish using conventional methods. This is done primarily using artificially created ponds which are then cultivated. Consequently, pond farming belongs to the field of agriculture, in particular animal breeding.
Pond farming also makes use of other methods, apart from the simple keeping of ponds, for different purposes. As a rule, spawning and the rearing of broodstock takes place in plastic tubs in brooding buildings, which are usually supplied with water from wells or springs. Some farms specialise in rearing fish and keep them in round basins until they are sold to aquaculture operators.
Two considerable disadvantages here are that traditionally pond farming concentrates exclusively on freshwater fish, and the end product volume is usually only sufficient to satisfy local market needs.
