Coastal Aquaculture and Mariculture (2+1)

Unit 5 - Finfish culture systems

5.1.1. Culture systems

• The most common culture systems are brackish water coastal farms. The farm may include nurseries, and rearing ponds.
• Though cultured under monoculture systems they can be polycultured with mullets and shrimps.
• They are sometimes grown in freshwater ponds or stocked in lakes and reservoirs in the Southeast Asia.
• The more important farming system in freshwaters is the pen farming that has developed in lakes in the Philippines (Laguna de Bay and Lake Sampaloc).