Fish farming or fish farming includes the industrial raising of fish in fish ponds or artificial rooms (e.g. fish ponds), generally for food. It is an unique kind of tank farming in which marine pets, such as fish, shellfishes, mollusks, and so on, are cultured as well as harvested in a controlled fashion in a natural or pseudo-natural environment.
Facilities where juvenile fish are released into the wild for leisure fishing or to replenish the natural population of a types are often referred to as fish hatcheries. Worldwide, the most crucial fish species generated by fish farming are carp, catfish, salmon as well as tilapia.
