Aquaculture Lab Flashcards
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Aquaculture Origins
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- 5th C BC in ancient China
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Today
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- more than half of world’s seafood production
- 50% finfish (salmon, catfish), 25% mollusks (oysters, clams), 25% crustaceans (crab, shrimp)
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Farming Aquaculture
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- production of seafood from hatchery fish and shellfish which are grown to market size in ponds, tanks, cages, raceways
- includes raising ornamental fish for aquarium trade and growing plant species used in range of food, pharma, nutritional, biotech products
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Restoration Aquaculture
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- form of aquaculture in which hatchery fish and shellfish are released into wild to rebuild wild populations or coastal habitats like oyster reefs
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Anadromous
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- migrating upriver from the sea to spawn
- salmon, sturgeon
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Euryhaline
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- fish that are able to adapt to wide range of salinities
7
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Stenohaline
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- fish that cannot tolerate wide fluctuation in water salinity
8
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Sturgeon
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- largest spawning populations in Klamath and Sac River systems
- green sturgeon is threatened species
- carnivorous (molluscivore in wild; will eat commercial pelleted food)
- anadromous and euryhaline
- see lab manual pg. 100 for differences between green and white sturgeons
- vent for green sturgeons is btwn pelvic fins; behind for white sturgeon
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Koi
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- can be trained to eat from the hand
- bright coloring makes them targets for predators; netting over ponds for protection
- will return to color of common carp w/in few generations of being released in the wild
- stenohaline
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Common Carp
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- most commonly farmed finfish species in the world (Europe, Asia)
- listed in top 100 of world’s most invasive species
- stenohaline
- omnivorous
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Atlantic Salmon
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- mainly produced in US, Canada, Russia, Australia
- “commercially extinct” in the wild (too rare to support commercial fishing)
- carnivorous, require large amounts of protein in diet
- anadromous
- euryhaline
- juveniles are freshwater, undergo saltwater adaptation at 2-5 yrs
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Nile Tilapia
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- 7th most commonly farmed finfish in the world
- can be traced back 4000 yrs ago to Ancient Egypt
- omnivorous, do not require animal protein in diet to thrive
- euryhaline
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Bivalves (Oysters, Clams)
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- 25% of aquaculture production
- aquaculture of bivalves is considered ecologically neutral
- subsist by filtering photosynthetic plankton
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Lifecycle/Production Cycles
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- see lab manual pgs. 102-103
15
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Oyster Trochophore Larva
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- larval stage is formed w/in hours after egg cleavage; ciliated at one end and valves (and adductor muscles) starting to develop at opposite end