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Plankton comes from the Greek word
“planktos” which means drifter.
All aquatic microscopic or macroscopic
drifting plants and animals are called plankton
such as- Diatoms, Copepods, Dinoflagellates
All of the floating or drifting life in aquatic
ecology
Drifting or having weak swimming power but
not against current.
7. There are two types of plankton:-
1) Phytoplankton - which are
autotrophs (plant-like) Volvox.
2) Zooplankton –
which are heterotrophs
(animal-like) Diaptomus.
1) Phytoplankton
Aquatic microscopic or macroscopic drifting
plants such as Diatoms, Volvox, Anabaena,
Pinnularia, Dinoflagellates, Navicula etc.7
Types of lankton
Phytoplankton is the base of the food chain
15. Aquatic microscopic or macroscopic drifting
animals e.g. Amphlipod, Copepods, Daphnia,
Rotifera, Diaptomus, Nauplus etc.
Nutritional modes of zooplankton:
Herbivores: feed primarily on phytoplankton
Carnivores: feed primarily on other
zooplankton (animals)
Detrivores: feed primarily on dead organic
matter (detritus)
Omnivores: feed on mixed diet of plants and
animals and detritus15
22. Polyculture
Polyculture is the practice of culturing more than one
species of fish in the same pond.
The basic principal of polyculture is that the cultivation of
various fish species having different food habits.
To maximize the total production per unit area with the
proper utilization of available food in a pond.
There should be a compatible combination of species with
diversified feeding habit that should include
surface/column feeders to bottom feeders as well as
omnivorous to macrovegetation feeding fish species.
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Aquaculture also known as Aquafarming
It is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish,
mollusc and aquatic plants.
It involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater
populations under controlled conditions.
Aquaculture refers to the breeding, rearing, and
harvesting of plants and animals in all types of water
environments.