DAVAO CENTRAL COLLEGE,

INC.
Juan dela Cruz Street, Toril, Davao City
Landline No. (082) 291 1882
Accredited by ACSCU-ACI

Week 4

Unit 2: Basic Concepts of Fishery

Topic: Branches of Fishery

Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the different branches of fishery
2. Differentiate intensive, semi-intensive and extensive fish
farming

Concept Digest (Discussion)

Branches of Fishery

There are 3 branches of fishery and they are follows:

1. Fish Culture – the human effort of raising the maximum
productivity of fish and other fishery aquatic products and
maintaining the supply of these products to satisfy human needs.
2. Fish Capture – branch of fishery science deals with the scientific
method of catching fish as well and the type of fishing gear used.
3. Fish Preservation – branch of fishery science that deals with the
scientific method of preserving fish and other fishery aquatic
products to prevent spoilage.

Branches of Fishery Arts Overview

Fish Culture
Fish culture is an art and science of raising, rearing and
propagating of fish and other aquatic products under controlled or
semi-controlled environment. It is primarily practice for the support
and sustenance to human needs for consumption.

Fish culture under controlled condition is one undertaken in an

aquarium, tank, hapa, fish cage, pen or pond.
Fish culture has three major phases: fish propagation, fish
cultivation and fish conservation.

Fish Propagation is defined as the natural or artificial method of

promoting or enhancing reproduction and survival of fish and other
aquatic products. It includes keeping, maintaining and spawning
breeders in tanks or ponds, hatching the eggs in hatchery facilities,
and nursing the delicate larvae up to size suitable for stocking in
the grow-our or rearing areas.
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Natural Method

Artificial Method

Fish Cultivation simply means the rearing of fish and other

aquatic products from very young stage like fry and
fingerlings, to marketable size. It is done in fresh, brackish
and marine waters in any of the rearing contraptions or
structures. The other types of sub-classification based on the
techniques applied and financial investments, namely:
extensive, semi-intensive and intensive.
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A. Extensive Fish Farming

The fish feed entirely from the food web within the pond,
which may be enhanced by the addition of the fertilizer or
manure.

B. Semi-Intensive Fish Farming

The fish still obtain significant nutrition from the food web
within their pond, but they are also given supplementary feed.
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C. Intensive Fish Farming

The fish are kept at too high a stocking density to obtain

significant amount of feed from their environment.

Fish Conservation

Fish Conservation is the public control and various

maintenances of the various fisheries where fish and other
fishery products are deprived. It work should be designed to
insure maximum sustainable yield of fish. For instance, the
continuous use of fishpond without proper maintenance, like
applying fertilizer, lowers the productivity of the soil. It
lessens the capacity of fish to reproduce.

Fish Capture

Fish Capture is a rule or principle of capturing or operating

methods of fish and carried out distinct means with some
regularity. It includes the fishing gears, technologies and
equipment for systematic capturing.

Fish Preservation

It is any operation that can prevent or inhibit the natural

process of breakdown or decomposition taking place in the
fish. It is known as fish processing.

Reference:

Bituin, A. Et.al, Agri-Fishery Arts Module, Batangas State

University, Blayan Campus Caloocan, Balayan, Batangas