KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA, BOUDH

Biology Investigatory Project

On
PISCICULTURE
Prepared By:-Pratisa Kar
Class:- XII science
Roll:-
Guided By:-Smt. RAJALAXMI BISWAL

Session:-2020-21
 Kendriya Vidyalaya, Boudh

Certificate 
This is to certify that PRATISA KAR a student of
class XII has successful
completed research project on
PISCICULTURE under the guidance of Smt.
Rajalaxmi Biswal (PGT Biology).
This project is absolutely genuine and does not
include in plagiarism of any kind. This reference
taken in making this project has been declared at the
end of the project.

Sign. Of Internal Sign. Of External

 Sign. Of Principal
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sl. No. Contents Page no.

1. ACKNOWLEDMENT 04

2. OBJECTIVES 05

3. INTRODUCTION 06-08

4. ABOUT THE TOPIC 09-11

5. EXPERIMENT 12-13

6. OBSERVATION TABLE 14-15

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY 16
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep sense of

gratitude to all those people without whom this project could have never
been completed. First and foremost, I’d like to thank my father for his
inexhaustible source of inspiration.

I would like to thank my Principal Mrs. Sujata Ratha and school for
providing me with the facilities required to complete this project.

I am highly indebted to my Biology teacher Mrs. Rajalaxmi Biswal,

for his invaluable guidance which has sustained my efforts in all the
stages of this project work.
My thanks and appreciation goes out to my fellow classmates and to the
people who have willingly helped me out with this project to the best of
their abilities.

Signature of the Candidate

 INTRODUCTION

PISCICULTURE is raising of fish in inland waters,

estuaries or coastal waters. It is derived from the Latin
word Pisces meaning “fish”.
The species of fish which can be kept successfully in
captivity throughout their lives from egg to adult is
exceedingly limited in number. The various breeds of
goldfish are familiar examples, but the carp is almost the
only food-fish capable of similar domestication. Various
other food-fishes, both marine and fresh-water, can be
kept in ponds for longer or shorter periods, but refuse to
breed, while in other cases the fry obtained from captive
breeders will not develop.
Pisciculture is now carried out in fresh water ponds.
Paddy fields, lakes and even in artificial tanks and
reservoirs. The species of fish which can be kept
successfully incapacitivity throught out their lives from
egg to adult is exceedingly limited in number. Pisciculture
providing large scale employment opportunities ,
improving rural economy and protein rich food . India has
a vast area of natural and artificial water bodies as
paddyfields,lakes,ponds,river,swamps etc. Most of these
holdings water throughout the year or for grater part of
the year, are suitable for fish culture.

The breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by

artificial means is called pisciculture, in other words, fish
farming. It is the principal form of aquaculture, while
other methods may fall under mariculture. It involves
raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually
for food. A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild
for recreational fishing or to supplement species’ natural
numbers is generally referred to as a fish hatchery. Fish
species raised by fish farms include salmon, catfish,
tilapia and cod.
There is an increasing demand for fish and fish protein,
which has resulted in widespread Overfishing Inn Wild
fisheries, China holding 62 percent of the world’s fish
farming practice. Fish farming offers fish marketers
another source. However, farming carnivorous fish, such
as Salmon, does not always reduce pressure on wild
fisheries, since carnivorous farmed fish are usually fed
fishmeal and fish oil extracted from wild forage fish. The
global returns for fish farming recorded by the FAO In
2008 totalled 33.8million Tonnes worth about $US 60
billion.
In 2005, aquaculture represented 40% of the157.5 million
tons of seafood that was produced, meaning that it has
become a critical part of our world’s food source even
though the industry is still technically in its ‘infancy’ and
didn’t really become well known until the 1970s. Because
of this rise in aquaculture, there has been a rise in the per
capita availability of seafood globally within the last few
decades.