Aquaculture Exercise I Restructure rearrange the following sentences

Aquaculture Exercise

I. Restructure: rearrange the following sentences from 1 to 4. (according to its time) a. ) The Bible refers to fish ponds and sluices and Hieroglyphics illustrate that the Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom developed ornamental fish ponds and attempted intensive fish culturing. b. ) The earliest records of fish farming are from Asia (China) where the practice was used often, perhaps as far back as 2500 BC. c. ) In Asia, this early farming activity involved capturing fish, mainly carps, after river floods and holding them in artificial lakes and ponds. d. ) So, we can understand that aquaculture is not a new industry, nor is it an untested concept. 1. __b__ 2. __c__ 3. __a__ 4. __d__

II. Matching 1. ) _intention_ something that you want and plan to do 2. ) _ornamental_ beautiful rather than useful 3. ) _ingenious_ (of a person) very clever and skilful, or a thing) cleverly made or planned and involving new ideas and methods 4. ) __attribute__ to say or think that something is the result or work of something or someone else 5. ) _intervention_ to intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse

III. After reading 1. ) What is Aquaculture? ◦ Please refer to page 1 of the Lesson 4. 2. ) Could you give a brief introduction of the history of aquaculture? ◦ Please refer to page 3 of the Lesson 4.

Vocabulary: There are 6 vocabularies under below the check, and you have to find them and circle them.

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Polyculture is a form of sustainable farming. The farmer creates an ecosystem of mutually beneficial crops. Polyculture is the opposite of monoculture, where only one kind of crop or animal is raised. The Wikipedia definition explains it better than I can. http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Polyculture The Wikipedia definition describes using multiple crops, but polyculture includes creating an ecosystem with animals, too.

"by-products" referred just to the feces (a less polite word is "shit") from silkworms to feed the fish, but apparently it also included their leftover cocoons and the residue from the mulberry leaves. The article asserts that the Western world would see those shells and residue as just "waste" and throw them away, whereas the Chinese figured out a way to make them beneficial to another kind of farming--fish farming. And then the silt from the fish pond would benefit the mulberry trees, so there would be a mutually beneficial cycle of