- •Р.А. Юсупова
- •От автора
- •Unit 1 aquaculture Active vocabulary
- •1 Aquaculture
- •1.1 Read the following international words and translate them. (Mind the part of speech).
- •1.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •1.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •1.4 Answer the questions
- •1.6 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
- •1.7 Match the words with their definitions.
- •1.8 Read the text without a dictionary. Aquaculture’s beginnings
- •2 Ancient and modern aquaculture
- •2.1 Read the following international words and translate them. (Mind the part of speech).
- •2.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •2.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •2.4 Give English equivalents:
- •Vocabulary
- •4.5 Give English equivalents:
- •4.6 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
- •4.7 Match the words with their definitions.
- •4.8 Topics for discussion
- •Feeding the world through agriculture
- •5 Control over reared species
- •5.1 Read the following international words and translate them. (Mind the part of speech).
- •5.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •5.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •5.4 Give English equivalents:
- •5.9 Answer the questions
- •Unit 2 fish culture Active vocabulary
- •6 The big two in fish culture
- •Choose the equivalents:
- •Aquaculture species in the united states
- •1 Rainbow, brown
- •7.4 Give English equivalents:
- •4Bullhead
- •7.13 Render the following verbs with ing-forms into infinitives and translate them:
- •8 Culture systems
- •8.1 Read the following international words and translate them.
- •8.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •8.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •8.4 Give English equivalents:
- •8.5 Match the words with their definitions.
- •8.6 Fill in the gaps using the words given below:
- •8.7 Answer the questions
- •8.8 Read the text without a dictionary. Types of aquaculture opeations
- •Vocabulary
- •8.9 Match the words with their definitions.
- •8.10 Answer the questions
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •10.5 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •12.5 Answer the questions
- •13 Potential adverse effects
- •13.1 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •Vocabulary
- •13.2 Answer the questions
- •14 Carp Aquaculture
- •Carp as ornamental fish
- •15 Tilapia Fish farming
- •Nutrition
- •Exotic species
- •Uses other than supplying food
- •In aquaria
- •16 Trout Anatomy
- •Habitat
- •As food
- •River fishing
- •17 Salmon Life cycle
- •Species
- •Atlantic Ocean species
- •Pacific Ocean species
- •Salmon fisheries
- •Salmon aquaculture
- •18 Shrimp Farming
- •Marketing
- •Life cycle
- •19 Grass carp
- •Ecology
- •Invasive species
- •Use as weed control
- •Fishing for grass carp
- •Triploid Grass Carp
- •20 Channel catfish
- •21 Pond
- •Technical definitions
- •Formation
- •Characteristics
- •22 Cage
- •Site Criteria
- •Pond Problems
- •Water Quality
- •Temperature
- •Turbidity
- •23 Raceway
- •Site selection
- •Water flow
- •Maximum load
- •Waste water
- •Appendix
- •Proverbs
- •Библиографический список
Salmon fisheries
T
Spawning sockeye
salmon in
Becharof Creek, Becharof
Wilderness,
Alaska
Salmon population levels are of concern in the Atlantic and in some parts of the Pacific. Alaska fishery stocks are still abundant, and catches have been on the rise in recent decades, after the state initiated limitations in 1972. Some of the most important Alaskan salmon sustainable wild fisheries are located near the Kenai River, Copper River, and in Bristol Bay. Fish farming of Pacific salmon is outlawed in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone, however, there is a substantial network of publicly funded hatcheries, and the State of Alaska’s fisheries management system is viewed as a leader in the management of wild fish stocks. In Canada, returning Skeena River wild salmon support commercial, subsistence and recreational fisheries, as well as the area’s diverse wildlife on the coast and around communities hundreds of miles inland in the watershed. The status of wild salmon in Washington is mixed. Out of 435 wild stocks of salmon and steelhead, only 187 of them were classified as healthy; 113 had an unknown status, 1 was extinct, 12 were in critical condition and 122 were experiencing depressed populations. The Columbia River salmon population is now less than 3% of what it was when Lewis and Clark arrived at the river. The commercial salmon fisheries in California have been either severely curtailed or closed completely in recent years, due to critically low returns on the Klamath and or Sacramento Rivers, causing millions of dollars in losses to commercial fishermen. Both Atlantic and Pacific salmon are popular sportfish.
Salmon populations now exist in all the Great Lakes. Coho stocks were planted in the late 1960s in response to the growing population of non-native alewife by the state of Michigan. Now Chinook (King), Atlantic, and Coho (silver) salmon are annually stocked in all Great Lakes by most bordering states and provinces. These populations are not self sustaining and do not provide much in the way of a commercial fishery, but have led to the development of a thriving sportfishery.
Salmon aquaculture
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Salmon farm in the archipelago of Finland
Salmon are carnivorous and are currently fed a meal produced from catching other wild fish and other marine organisms. Salmon farming leads to a high demand for wild forage fish. Salmon require large nutritional intakes of protein, and consequently, farmed salmon consume more fish than they generate as a final product. To produce one pound of farmed salmon, products from several pounds of wild fish are fed to them. As the salmon farming industry expands, it requires more wild forage fish for feed, at a time when 75% of the world’s monitored fisheries are already near to or have exceeded their maximum sustainable yield. The industrial scale extraction of wild forage fish for salmon farming then impacts the survivability of the wild predator fish who rely on them for food.
Work continues on substituting vegetable proteins for animal proteins in the salmon diet. Unfortunately, though, this substitution results in lower levels of the highly valued omega-3 fatty acid content in the farmed product.
Intensive salmon farming now uses open-net cages, which have low production costs, but have the drawback of allowing disease and sea lice to spread to local wild salmon stocks.
On a dry weight basis, 2–4 kg of wild-caught fish are needed to produce one kg of salmon.
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Artificially incubated chum
salmon
An alternative method to hatcheries is to use spawning channels. These are artificial streams, usually parallel to an existing stream with concrete or rip-rap sides and gravel bottoms. Water from the adjacent stream is piped into the top of the channel, sometimes via a header pond, to settle out sediment. Spawning success is often much better in channels than in adjacent streams due to the control of floods, which in some years can wash out the natural redds. Because of the lack of floods, spawning channels must sometimes be cleaned out to remove accumulated sediment. The same floods which destroy natural redds also clean them out. Spawning channels preserve the natural selection of natural streams, as there is no benefit, as in hatcheries, to use prophylactic chemicals to control diseases.
Farm-raised salmon are fed the carotenoids astaxanthin and canthaxanthin to match their flesh color to wild salmon.