Book Description: Aquaculture provides much desired economic and nutritional benefits to mankind. Whether in large ponds, sea cages or small backyard tanks, aquaculture holds much promise for meeting increasing food demands. In fact, with most capture fisheries in decline, aquaculture is the best one to maintain and increase supplies of marine and freshwater fish and prawn. Comprehensive literature is required by both students and farmers of aquaculture. An attempt has been made to explain the topics, namely, Taxonomy, Common Fish, General Biology of Fish and Prawn, Food and Feeding, Life History, Seed, Pond Construction and Management, Culture Systems, Nutrition and Feeds, Pathology, and Biotechnology and Aquaculture, to an optimum level of requirement. This book will serve well the needs of the students of aquaculture and the cultivators of fish and prawn.