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Chapter 1 basics
vocabulayy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | The art, science,and business of producing everykind of plant and animal useful to humans |
| Aquaculture | The art, science,and business of cultivating plants and animals in water. |
| Aquifer | underground supply of water |
| Brackish Water | A mixture of fresh and sea water a total salt concentration between .05 and 3 percent salinity of 1 to 10 parts per thousand |
| Broodstock | adult fish held for spawning |
| Coldwater | cool water with a temp of 50-65* |
| Culture | The buisness of producing propagating transporting processing and selling fish or shellfish raised in a private pomd raceway or tank |
| Eggs | the mature female germ cell, ovum |
| Fingerlings | the stage of a fishes life between 1 in and the length of 1 year of age |
| Freshwater | water containing less than .05 dissolved salts by wieght |
| Grow-out | facillitys that produce crops from the seed (fish) |
| Harvesting | Involves gathering or capturing of the fish for marketing and processing. aquaculture harvesting is typically topping or partial and total harvesting |
| Hatchery | produce the seed or young fish |
| Husbandry | the occupation or buisness of farming |
| Incubate | to maintain favorable temperature and ion other conditions promoting development of eggs until it hatches |
| Larvae | an immature form that must undergo the change of appearance or pass through a metamorphic stage to reach adult size |
| Mariculture | raising of organisms in the ocean |
| Monoculture | raising a single species in a pond or enclosure |
| Polyculture | raising two or more species in the same pond or enclosure. |
| Processing | all the procedures to prepare a product aquaculture for comsumption |
| Salinity | concentration of sodium, potassium magnesium calcium bicarbonate carbonate sulfate and halides (chloride floride bromide) in water |
| Seed | fertilized mature ovule of a flowering plant containing an embryo or rudimenary plant any part of a plant that will reproduce including tuber and bulbs offspring or progeny |
| Self-Feeders | device that allows animals the choice of when to recieve feed |
| Spawn | the mass of eggs deposited in the water by fishes amphibians and other aquatic animals to deposit eggs or sperm (milt) |
| Warmwater | water exceeding 70* |
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