Английский язык: Сборник текстов и упражнений для студентов специальностей "Промышленное рыболовство". Дьякова Н.П. - 48 стр.

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              FEEDING THE WORLD THROUGH AQUACULTURE

Commercial aquaculturists throughout the world are in business to make a profit.
When that profit is associated with providing food for other people, the commercial
aquacuturist is not generally interested in feeding the hungry, but in providing the
best quality product possible and selling it for the highest possible price. In some
places, subsistence culture, which involves the rearing of a modest amount of aqua-
cultured product for consumption by a family, group of families, or a village involved
in the enterprise, is being practised. One or a few small ponds can often produce
enough fish, for example, to meet the local animal protein demand, per haps even
with enough left over to sell profitably. Subsistence aquaculture, as is true of all aq-
uaculture, depends on availability of water in suitable quantity and quality. Water of
that nature is often not available, so the aquaculture option may not exist. Commer-
cial aquaculture is not, in general, a means of providing inexpensive animal protein to
the masses. Aquaculture can create jobs, enhance the overall economy of a region and
thereby help to improve the plight of under pivileged peoples. It is not a panacea,
however, and should not be looked upon as the means to prosperity for large numbers
of those who live in the developing nations of the world.

                                  World supplement

subsistence aquaculture                        аквакультура для пропитания
to enhance                                     повышать
plight                                         мучительное положение
underprivileged people                         неимущие люди
prosperity                                     преуспевание


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                          THE BIG TWO IN FISH CULTURE

The most widely cultured groups of fishes in the world are the carps. While the
people of the USA are most familiar with the common or European species, carp cul-
ture is dominated by production of a variety of Chinese carps including the common,
big head, silver and grass carp. In the USA the common carp was introduced from
Europe during the 19 th century. The Chinese have developed carp culture to a fine
art. They use a system known as polyculture (two or more non-competing species are
reared in the same water system) in which at least four species of carp are grown in
the same pond. Ponds in China are often fertilized with organic fertilizers which pro-
duce plant and animal food for fish. Aqricultural wastes may also be used. Common
carp feed on benthos, silver carp on phytoplankton, big head carp on zooplankton and

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