Fish Pond Construction and Management
INTRODUCTION Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food producing sectors in Agriculture and fish is among the most traded food commodities world-wide accounting for 17 per cent of global intake of animal protein (Food and Agricultural Organization, 2014). Fish is an aquatic and a source of high-quality animal protein that could be harvested from capture or culture fishery (Olele et al., 2008). Fisheries expert needs a medium where they can culture fish in a confined and controlled envi...
Land Use Planning
INTRODUCTION The beauty of agriculture is that every waste product from a sector can be recycled and used for the benefit of another sector, thereby leading to profit maximization and cost minimization. This can also be applicable in fisheries where aquaculture; which is the rearing or farming of economically important aquatic plants and animal in a confined environment is combined with any other form of agriculture like crop science, animal science, soil science amongst others which are cult...
Aquatic ecological survey
AQUATIC ECOLOGICAL SURVEY INTRODUCTION An aquatic ecological survey can be referred to as the backbone of Fisheries, and the process of planning can be referred to as a survey, according to a popular saying “he who fails to plan, plan to fail”. The aquatic ecological survey deals with proper planning in both capture and culture fisheries; planning (survey) in capture fisheries involve the use of a sophisticated instrument to check the aquatic resources of economi...
Sea Horse: A Case Study
INTRODUCTION Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) are among the many genera whose life histories might render them vulnerable to overfishing or other disruptions such as habitat damage. They are generally characterized by a sparse distribution, low mobility, small home ranges, low fecundity, lengthy parental care and mate fidelity (Foster and Vincent 2004). In addition, the male seahorse, rather than the female, becomes pregnant. Indeed, curiosity about this phenomenon explains why currently more is ...
450 Questions on Animal science, Climatology and Forestry
1. The study system circulation has a study name ____ and chief structures ______ and _______ a)Arthrology, Joint, Tissue b)Angiology, Heart, Blood c)Angiology, Capillaries, Blood tissue d)Angiology, Heart, Vessels e)None of the above 2. The study system sensory has a study name____ and chief structures ___, ____, ____and ____ a)Integromentry, Eye, Ear, Tongue, Skin b)Esthiology, Eye, Nose, Mouth, Skin c)Splanchnology, Eye, Nerves, Tongue, Skin d)Myology, Eye, Ear, Tongue, Skin, Mouth e)...
Effect of Different Energy Source on the Nutritional Composition and Acceptability of Clarias Gariepinus
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background InformationFish is an important source of cheap first class protein, providing essential amino acids(Aremu et al., 2014), it is an indispensable source of micronutrients (Okonji et al., 2016) andother elements for the maintenance of healthy body (Ravichandran et al., 2012; Ehigiator etal., 2015). The results of a study conducted by Sipe (2008) have shown a positive correlationbetween the amounts of fish consumed and l...