Freshwater Aquaculture – the study of breeding, rearing and commercialization of organisms, fish in particular, which inhabit in fresh water. Even though there remains some fragmentary information regarding the history of development of aquaculture in India but those seem to be far from being complete. In the present communication, the same has been given elaborately. The book concentrates on the culture technology of commercially important fresh water fishes.

Various types of culture techniques including Aquaponics, Bioflocs, Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS) apart from the conventional Cage culture, Pen culture, Integration of fish culture with other crops viz. paddy, vegetables, dairy, piggery, poultry etc. have been dispensed in detail.

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1. Introduction 2. Management of nursery ponds 3. Management of rearing ponds 4. Composite fish culture in stocking ponds 5. Food and feeding habits of fishes 6. Supplementary feed 5. Sewage-Fed Freshwater Aquaculture: (With Special Reference to East Kolkata Wetlands a Ramsar Site) 1. Introduction 2. Definition of Wetlands 3. Physiography of East Kolkata Wetlands area 4. Components of sewage 5. Flow of sewage at present 6. Definition of Sewage 7. Treatment of raw sewage for fish culture 8. Management of sewage 9. Sedimentation Pond 10. Dilution and storage 11. Technologies adopted by farmers 12. Dyke protection 6. Fish Health Management 1. Introduction 2. Causes of Disease 3. Host-Pathogen-Environment relationship 4. Determination of fish diseases 5. Diseases of fish and the environmental stress 6. Diseases of fish due to pathogens 7. Diseases of fish due to Nuritional disorders 8. The basics of sustainable aquaculture