Fisheries

• Aquatic organisms, which are exploitable by the public as a common property resource with or without appropriate license is known as fishery.
• Eg: Riverine fisheries, lake fisheries, rice field fisheries, etc.
• Generally, the fisheries activities can be divided as capture fisheries and enhanced fisheries.

Capture fisheries

• No stocking
• No management of feeding, fertilization, monitoring, etc. but only harvesting.
• Provides table fish for consumption, seed and feed for aquaculture and seed for enhanced fisheries.

Enhanced fisheries

• Only stocking.
• No management of feeding, fertilization, monitoring, etc. but only harvesting.
• Provides table fish for consumption, seed and feed for aquaculture and seed for enhanced fisheries.

Aquaculture

• Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants.
• Farming implies some form of intervention in the rearing processes to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators, etc.