Importance of Fisheries
1. Productive business over agricultural or veterinary practices. Tonnage of fish is produced in the same area over a few hundred kilograms of cattle and grain.
2. Export fish products for foreign currency.
3. Recycling agricultural and domestic waste and keep environmental clean.
4. Provide jobs for underemployed people of the developing countries.
5. Feed conservation is 1.5 times more of pig or chicken and 2 times of cattle and fish.
6. Integrated fish farming is more profitable (agricultural and animals) over alone.
7. Nutritive and palatable or easily digestible.
Economic importance of Fish
1. Fish as a nutritive food for human being.
2. Fish as food for livestock such as fish meal.
3. Fish oil-body and liver oil.
4. Fish flour-human consumption, 1:9 of fish flour and wheat flour.
5. Fish silage: Liquid or semi-liquid products.
6. Fish manure –low grade fish.
7. Fish glue.
8. Fish leather.
9. Fish macaroni.
10. Fish fin- tasteful sauce.
11. Biological control.
12. Fish biscuits.
13. Manufacturing the artificial peal.
14. Recreation value.
15. Industrial value.
16. Decorative value-aquarium.
17. Fish as source of insulin