1. FISH STOCKING
Meaning
Fisheries management technique
whereby a quantity of fish of chosen
species are released by humans into
a water body
Categories
1. Provide more fish for recreational
fishing and enough fishing
opportunities for anglers
Type
- Put-grow-and-take stocking
Small fish(fry –
juvenile)release into the
waters
Fish survive on natural
foods
Take time to grow to a
size large enough to be
harvested
Objective: to maintain
enough fish in the stock
over long period
-
Put-and-take stocking
Large adult/sub-adult fish
are released into the
water
Recreational fisherman
can immediately catch
the fish
Objective: to provide
high-quality fishing
experience for
recreational anglers
2. Rehabilitate degraded fish stocks
Objective
- To improve the status of
declining fish stocks
- To restore species diversity
to a degraded water
- To create a fish stock
Types
- Enhancement stocking
Type of fish stocking that
is carried out to improve
the fish species diversity
Example: stocking tilapia
in lake to provide for
other fish
- Conservation stocking
Specialization form of fish
stocking designed to
maintain genetic diversity
of fish populations to
recover endangered fish
species
Problems
1. Overpopulations of the target fish
species
This problem arise because
fisheries managers wrongly
believe that the species is under
populated
In result it make fish in
competition among them for life
resource (food)
There are just too many fish that
is being stocked in a water body
2. Fish populations imbalance
There are just too many fish of
certain species and too few fish
of other species
Poorly planned stocking can lead
some species to be
overpopulated or underpopulated