Activity Five

View a real aquaculture farm on the internet.   Go to www.fishedz.com and click on fish farm tour.  Each screen will cycle through a few photos showing life on a tropical fish farm. 

What follows are photographs from other aquaculture farms.  Click on each photo to see an enlarged view.

 

A covered pond at a tropical fish farm. Farmers use covers in cold weather to protect fish.

Aquarium and water garden plants being grown in a greenhouse.

Grow out area on an alligator farm.

Masses of catfish eggs are hatched in this tank.

Raising food for juvenile clams. These tanks have algae growing in them.

Catfish pond being fed from a truck.

Aquaculture project in a school. The students grow fish and plants.

This system is used to raise marine fish.

Clam farmers have plots of underwater land where they grow their product.

This type of farm uses water that is recirculated, or re-used, to save water.

Scuba diver at an oceanic farm producing rocks covered with colorful organisms for aquariums.

Turtle eggs hatching.