CULTURE-BASED CAPTURE FISHERIES

Capture fisheries which are maintained by stocking with material raised within aquaculture installations. More generally, activities aimed at supplementing or sustaining the recruitment of one or more aquatic species and raising the total production or the production of selected elements of a fishery beyond a level which is sustainable through natural processes. In this sense culture-based fisheries include enhancement measures which may take the form of: introduction of new species; stocking natural and artificial water bodies; fertilisation; environmental engineering including habitat improvements and modification of water bodies; altering species composition including elimination of undesirable species, or constituting an artificial fauna of selected species; genetic modification of introduced species. ( FAO Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Service, 1997). See : Aquaculture.