| 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) |
| C | |
| 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) |
| L | |
| Lobster | A large marine crustacean of the family Nephropidae with a hard shell, eight legs, and two large claws 📑 Lobster (read more) |
| M | |
| Macrobrachium rosenbergii | a large, nocturnal, bottom-dwelling (benthic), omnivorous, commercially significant species of palaemonid prawn found in tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific area, from Class: Crustacea, Order: Decapoda, Family: Palaemonidae, recognised by its long, prominent second walking legs (chelipeds) which are often blue or orange, and a long upward-curving rostrum with 11–14 dorsal teeth and 8–10 ventral teeth. 📑 Macrobrachium rosenbergii (read more) |
| 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) |
| O | |
| Ocean | The great body of salt water that covers most of the Earth’s surface. 📑 Ocean (read more) |
| Oyster | Member of the family Ostreidae which includes the species commonly considered edible oysters 📑 Oyster (read more) |
| P | |
| Prawn | A decapod crustacean, a shellfish with ten legs and a long tail, that are commonly eaten as a food and resemble a large shrimp. 📑 Prawn (read more) |
| S | |
| Sea | The salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands 📑 Sea (read more) |
| Shell | The hard, outer, protective covering of eggs, nuts, some seeds, insects and some animals 📑 Shell (read more) |
| 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) |
| Shrimp net | A triangular small-meshed net, on a hoop and pole, for catching shrimp, with a rigid frame that is pushed along the bottom in shallow waters 📑 Shrimp net (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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