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1. What is aquaculture?
2. What is called mariculture?
3. When did one-fish culture begin?
4. What does aquaculture include?
1.5 Give English equivalents: рыбоводство, рыбные объекты, нерыбные объекты, устричное хозяйство, пресная вода, декоративная рыба, времена фараонов, морская среда.
1.6 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
1. Aquaculture in salt water is called (марикультура).
2. Aquaculture is (подводное) agriculture.
3. The most popular aquaculture species are (рыбные объекты).
4. Aquaculture involves cultivating (пресноводные) and (соленоводные) populations of fish.
5. Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms such as (рыба), (ракообразные), (моллюски) and (водные растения).
6. Some kinds of aquaculture include (рыбоводное хозяйство), (устричное хозяйство), (хозяйство по выращиванию креветок), and (хозяйство по выращиванию морских водорослей).
Match the words with their definitions.
| 1) fish | a) Organisms that inhabit, and complete their life cycle, in aquatic media. |
| 2) fish aquaculture | b) The means, facilities, utilities and equipment that enable commercial production of aquatic organisms, throughout their life cycles and in captivity. |
| 3) fish husbandry | c) An aquatic vertebrate, cold-blooded animal with fins and internal gills, and having no limbs. |
| 4) aquaculture | d) The controlled production of fish in constructed facilities in captivity. |
| 5) aquatic organisms | e) aquaculture practice involving finned fish. |
| 6) aquaculture system | f) The breeding and rearing of fish for a variety of reasons. |
| 7) pisciculture | g) also known as aquafarming, it is the controlled growth of aquatic species. |
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