| TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Aquaculture centre | Institution where aquaculture activities are practiced 📑 Aquaculture centre (read more) |
| Aquaponics | 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, where nitrifying bacteria convert ammonia into nitrates. 📑 Aquaponics (read more) |
| Aquarium | A tank with generally transparent, glass walls that is filled with water and houses fish, plants, or other animals that live in water. 📑 Aquarium (read more) |
| Aquiculture | Culture of aquatic organisms in freshwater and brakish water 📑 Aquiculture (read more) |
| D | |
| Dam | A barrier built across a river or stream to prevent water from flowing through thereby forming a reservoir 📑 Dam (read more) |
| Dam liner | A very low permeability thin geosynthetic membrane liner or barrier, made of elastomers or thermoplastics (polyethylene, PVC) in wound strips, used with any geotechnical engineering related material so as to control fluid (liquid or gas) migration in a pond or dam. 📑 Dam liner (read more) |
| E | |
| Earthen pond | A drainable water body (artificial dam, reservoir, lake or pond) entirely constructed from soil materials by shaping and building an earthen or dirt embankment around a depression or low-lying area, usually having a water inlet and/or an outlet. It is a near-natural habitat for fishes (catfish, tilapia, etc.) like a river or stream. 📑 Earthen pond (read more) |
| F | |
| Fish farm | Farms where fish farming is being practiced 📑 Fish farm (read more) |
| Fish farming | A form of aquaculture dealing with the culture of fish. 📑 Fish farming (read more) |
| Fish stock | Subpopulations of a particular species of fish, for which intrinsic parameters are traditionally regarded as the significant factors determining the stock's population dynamics, while extrinsic factors are traditionally ignored. 📑 Fish stock (read more) |
| B | |
| Bivalve | Any shellfish (an aquatic mollusc) having two shells or valves which open and shut. 📑 Bivalve (read more) |
| C | |
| Catfish | Any fish of the family Siluriformes, which live in freshwater and have whisker-like barbels around the mouth 📑 Catfish (read more) |
| Clam | Marine bivalve shellfish (aquatique molluscs) that usually live buried in the seabed or in sand, whose soft meat can be eaten raw or cooked. 📑 Clam (read more) |
| Crab | An edible crustacean with a thick exoskeleton and two claws, eight legs, found in oceans and freshwater all over the world 📑 Crab (read more) |
| Crayfish | An animal like a small lobster , that lives in rivers and lakes and can be eaten, or one like a large lobster , that lives in the sea and can be eaten 📑 Crayfish (read more) |
| Crustacean | Any of various widespread arthropods (invertebrate with jointed appendages) of the subphylum Crustacea that live mostly in water and have a hard shell, with a segmented body. Crustaceans are the largest group of marine arthropods, which include crabs, lobsters, and prawns and shrimps. 📑 Crustacean (read more) |
| M | |
| Mollusk | Any of the invertebrate animals in the phylum Mollusca that have soft, unsegmented bodies and often live in water and have external shells. 📑 Mollusk (read more) |
| Mussel | A small shellfish of the familly Mytilidae that can be eaten, with a black asymmetrical shell in two parts. 📑 Mussel (read more) |
| S | |
| Shellfish | A creature with a shell, that lives in water, especially one of the types that can be eaten. 📑 Shellfish (read more) |
| Shrimp | Small decapod crustacean shellfish that is found in fresh and salt water and can be eaten. Like a prawn but smaller. 📑 Shrimp (read more) |
| Snail | A small soft creature with a hard round shell on its back, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants. 📑 Snail (read more) |
| T | |
| Tiger prawn | A large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans. 📑 Tiger prawn (read more) |
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