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The word aquaculture is the term that designates both I study as the technique of culture Intensive that is carried out on both plant and animal species, in fresh waters or in the sea. It is also possible that it appears called aquaculture.

It should also be noted that the aforementioned activity has become an important economic activity in the whole world since it produces food and raw materials that will later be used in different uses such as: industrial and pharmaceutical. And on the other hand it is developed to reproduce organisms that will later show a use of ornamentation or will be oriented to repopulate communities that do not have their species or in which they are in danger of disappearance.

The procedure that aquaculture implements can vary from being carried out in the very habitat of the species or be carried out in places specially equipped for such purposes and based on superconditions. controlled. Generally, they are carried out on sandy bottoms or in special structures such as: floating cages, tanks, containers, among others, that are supported on the bottom. Right there the sowing, the

feeding and the fattening process.

Meanwhile, environmental conditions will determine the type of aquaculture, extensive or intensive. In the first, the systems used are of low performance, in contrast, in the second, the intervention on the species is superior since it takes into account the biology that presents the same to thus avoid the appearance of diseases and establish all the needs that affect its satisfactory development.

Among the most cultivated species are microalgae, macroalgae, crustaceans and mollusks.

If we review the history of this practice we find the surprise that it has been practiced, with some differences to this day, but being practiced at last, since Thousands of years ago, in 3,800 B.C. the oldest antecedents are found in China, but also Greeks, Babylonians, Egyptians and Romans they have deployed it. Meanwhile, in the Middle AgesIt returned to take center stage and began to advance as the different scientific advances progressed. In the year 1758 there is undoubtedly a great leap with the discovery made by the Austrian-born researcher Stephen Jacobi on artificial fertilization of trout and salmon eggs.

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