Cage Culture

Cage culture is an emerging technology through which fishes are reared from fry to fingerling, fingerling to table size or table size to marketable size while captive in an enclosed space that maintains the free exchange of water with the surrounding water body

Fish can be cultured in one of four culture systems—ponds, raceways, recirculation systems, or cages. A cage or net pen is a system that is enclosed on all sides with mesh netting made from a synthetic material that can resist decomposition in water for a long period of time.

Cage culture is an emerging technology through which fishes are reared from fry to fingerling, fingerling to table size or table size to marketable size while captive in an enclosed space that maintains the free exchange of water with the surrounding water body. A cage is enclosed on all sides with mesh netting made from a synthetic material that can resist decomposition in water for a long period of time. The growing and production of farmed aquatic organisms in caged enclosures has been a relatively recent aquaculture innovation.