Aquaculture Lesson

Which one of the following refers exclusively to the aquaculture of marine species?

• Polyculture

• Aquaponics

• Mariculture

• Aquaculture

Extensive aquaculture is conducted mostly in open water ways?

• True

• False

Being dependent on local water quality and climate is a problem for

• Extensive aquaculture systems

• Intensive aquaculture systems

• All types of aquaculture systems

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Benefits of intensive systems are

• Having a high level of control over the system

• Excess food decomposing in the water

• High costs of running

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Expensive species such as salmon, barramundi, abalone, trout and aquarium fish are farmed in

• intensive systems

• extensive systems

The biggest aquaculture earner in WA is

• Barramundi

• Mussels

• Oysters

• Pearls

Which government department in WA manages aquaculture?

• Department of Fisheries WA

• Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

• Management and Environmental Monitoring Plans

• Fish Resources Management Act 1994

Perth falls into which Bioregion?

• Gascoyne

• West Coast

• North Coast

• South Coast

What type of aquaculture system was typically used in traditional Asia?

• Sea cages

• Tanks

• Racks

• Inland fish ponds

Besides producing food, aquaculture can also be used for

• boosting numbers of wild fish for recreational fishing coral

• restoring threatened and endangered species

• providing ornamental fish

• all of these options

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