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Terminology record for aquaculture


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Record No.: 2/en/3
Author: ELAD D. F.
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Last updated: 2025-07-24 09:50:21

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VEDETTE * Aquaculture statut : recommandé

* Halieuculture (nom féminin) statut : admis
PARTIE DU DISCOURS nom féminin
ÉTYMOLOGIE Aquaculture
DÉFINITION Culture contrôlée (élevage et récolte) d'organismes aquatiques (animaux et/ou plantes) tels que les poissons, les coquillages, les crustacés, les mollusques, les algues et d'autres organismes précieux tels que les plantes aquatiques (par exemple, les lotus, les algues) dans l'eau douce, saumâtre ou de mer. Elle consiste à cultiver des populations d'eau douce, d'eau saumâtre et d'eau salée dans des conditions contrôlées ou semi-naturelles.
PLURIEL Aquacultures ;

halieucultures ;
SOURCE DE DÉFINITION Fishterm
USAGE Décret n° 95/413 /PM du 20 juin 1995 fixant certaines Modalités d'Application du Régime de la Pêche., Chapter I, article 2, alinéa 8 : « L' aquaculture : l'élevage d'espèces de la faune et de la flore aquatique par le biais des méthodes et techniques permettant un développement contrôlé à tous les stades biologiques dans un environnement aquatique ou toute autre structure appropriée. »
Notes

6 Sous-domaines de l'aquaculture

Il existe de nombreux sous-domaines de l'aquaculture. Les 6 principaux sous-domaines de l'aquaculture sont :

  1. la pisciculture : élevage de poissons ;
  2. la conchyliculture : élevage de coquillages marins : huîtres, moules, praires, coques, etc. ;
  3. l'algoculture : culture d'algues aquatiques ;
  4. la carcinoculture : élevage de crustacés, essent
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SUBJECT FIELD
Fisheries FISHTERM subject field hierarchy     (Hierarchy: Fisheries)
TERM * Aquaculture status: recommended

* halieuculture (noun) status: accepted
PART OF SPEECH noun
PLURAL Aquacultures ;

halieucultures ;

aquafarmings ;
ETYMOLOGY
  • Aquaculture: from the affix of Latin origin aqua⁠-, ‘water’, and -⁠culture, ‘to take care of’.
  • Halieuculture: borrowed from Latin halieutica or French halieutique;
  • Aquafarming: from Latin aqua- +‎ farming;

The term aquaculture is likely to originate in the 1950s and gradually became popular till it go to its peak of popularity in the early 1990s. Another synonym, aquafarming is seldom used interchangeably with aquaculture, but not yet adopted by venerated authors in the fisheries sector. Halieuculture is another very rare frenchism synonymous to aquaculture that may be used in hyper technical documents.
ETYMOLOGY SOURCE
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
DEFINITION controlled cultivation (breeding or farming, raising, and harvesting) of aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish, crustaceans, molluscs, algae and other valuable organisms such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus, seaweeds) in fresh, brackish or sea water. It involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water and saltwater populations under controlled or semi-natural conditions.
DEFINITION SOURCE Fishterm
USAGE EXAMPLE « aquaculture: rearing of aquatic animals and plants using method and techniques which enable controlled development at all life stages in an aquatic environment or any other appropriate structure. » Source: Decree No. 95/413 /PM of 20 June 1995 to lay down certain conditions for the application of the fisheries regulations., Chapter I, article 2, paragraph 8;- ; Aquafarming: Project managers are increasingly involved in carrying out aquafarming projects these days, especially in inland waters, to rear tilapia, carp, and spirulina.
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Branches of aquaculture:

Aquaculture has several sub-sectors, some of which are subdivided into several other branches. Some of the Main subsectors of aquaculture include:

  1. Aquaponics: extensive polyculture integrating fish, molluscs and a multiplicity of plants in the form of a symbiosis, which feed on wastes that is in turn transformed by bacteria;
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