The demand for food is rising daily due to population growth and rising incomes, particularly for expensive goods like meat…
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A fish is a water-dwelling animal with a backbone, gills for breathing, and no limbs with fingers or toes. This category includes living creatures like hagfish, lampreys, cartilaginous, bony fish, and some extinct relatives. The majority of it, about 95%, belong to the ray-finned group, specifically the Actinopterygii class. Among these, nearly 99% are teleosts.
It’s plentiful in most bodies of water, adapting to various aquatic environments, from high mountain streams to the deepest ocean depths like the abyssal and hadal zones, where creatures like cusk-eels and snailfish thrive. Interestingly, no fish species have been confirmed to exist in the deepest 25% of the ocean. It exhibit remarkable species diversity, boasting 34,300 known species, surpassing all other vertebrate groups in this regard.
One of the main abiotic variables influencing the growth and survival of aquatic organisms is temperature. Above-thermal threshold extremes typically…
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Polyculture system: The best way to describe polyculture is as the simultaneous cultivation of multiple crop species on the same…
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Despite possessing a vast exclusive economic zone inside the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh solely utilizes marine resources from four zones…
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IMTA: Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is a system that feeds species with organisms that extract organic materials and extractive inorganic…
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Bangladesh has taken initiatives to expand its fisheries industry, with the goal of increasing export revenues in response to international…
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Non-traditional fish scales are becoming a viable export commodity in Bangladesh. In recent times, the country has seen an increase…
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As global demand for farmed seafood rises, Indonesia wants to modernize its fisheries industry to capture a larger share of…
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In Bangladesh, despite being a leading producer of freshwater fish globally, there’s a noticeable trend of increased fish imports, even…
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Bangladesh’s Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdur Rahman has inaugurated the ‘BFDC Ready to Cook Fish’ marketing program in Dhaka. This…
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