Aquaculture Engineering

Unit 2

Expected Learning Outcome
It emphasise the importance of site selection for aqua farm. It gives an idea about important points to be remember before prepare aqua farm project. It describe about the important points to be considered to select a suitable site for aqua farm. Different stages of site selection, how these factors influences in reducing cost of construction, trouble free culture, easy maintenance for ponds and other related structures. How the accessibility of the site condition, physical feature of the land and water source influences in reducing the cost of construction. Site condition, topography and other factors influences in preparing layout of fish farm, planning and designing of the ponds. It also briefly describe about classification of ponds based on various factors like construction and source of water and their merits and demerits.