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What is the difference between fishing and pisciculture?
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Answer
- The term ‘fishing’ includes all human efforts to obtain the aquatic animals in the sea, inland water and rivers.
- Breeding, rearing and transplantation of fish by artificial means is called pisciculture.
- In other words, pisciculture is fish farming. It involves raising of fish commercially in tanks or enclosures.
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