AIC Fishery Revision Questions 3rd Term
  • 1. 1. A water quality factor which largely regulates others is _________
A) Photosynthesis
B) Dissolved oxygen
C) Respiration
D) Temperature
  • 2. 2. The process of utilization of the feed consumed for growth and maintenance is _________
A) Ration
B) Decomposition
C) Eutrophication
D) Respiration
  • 3. 3. The major source of nitrogen in a fish pond is
A) Fish feed
B) Clay particles
C) Fish waste
D) Fertilizers
  • 4. 4. A lethal value of dissolved oxygen that causes fish kills more than the fish mortality caused by other water quality factors combined is ________
A) 18F
B) 2ppm
C) 20g/l
D) 70%
  • 5. 5. One of these is not a buffering agent of alkaline source
A) Carbonate ion
B) Bicarbonate ion
C) Hydrogen ion
D) Hydroxyl ion
  • 6. 6. A major challenge in raising fish using the recirculatory system is ______
A) Absence of photosynthesis
B) Need of buffering system
C) Lethal increase in pH
D) Build up of carbondioxied
  • 7. 7. Which two fish water qualities analysis would be done by an expert who may not afford the cost of testing for all the water quality parameters?
A) Photosynthesis and respiration
B) Turbidity and pH
C) Alkalinity and hardness
D) Temperature and dissolved oxygen
  • 8. 8. Which of these is a natural food for fish?
A) Sugar cane bagass
B) Rice molass
C) Biological covers
D) Soya bean cake
  • 9. 9. Actively moving aquatic organisms are called _______
A) Plankton
B) Benthos
C) Detritus
D) Necton
  • 10. 10. One of these indicates an adequate amount of phytoplankton in a fish pond
A) 110% saturated total ammonia
B) 20ppm hardness
C) A water transparency of 60cm
D) 3mlphytoplankton/ 100l of pond water
  • 11. 11. Which of these types of feeds is characteristic of an intensive fish culture?
A) Natural food
B) Complete feed
C) Supplementary feed
D) Fish
  • 12. 12. A dry feed has _______ moisture
A) 50%
B) 10%
C) 30%
D) 15%
  • 13. 13. Adoption of more feeding regime or frequency is necessary to _______
A) Encourage food wastage
B) Reduce dissolved oxygen consumption of fish
C) Discourage uniformity in fish size
D) Improve nutrient loss by leaching
  • 14. 14. Sinking feed are fed to fish
A) Either
B) At selected pond area
C) Neither
D) On entire pond area
  • 15. 15. What is the ratio of cement, sand and gravel for construction of a concrete pond?
A) 1:2:1
B) 0.5 difference
C) 25%
D) 1:2:4
  • 16. 16. The best soil for construction of an earthen pond has _______ amount of clay
A) 4%
B) 50%
C) 25%
D) 70%
  • 17. 17. One importance of the dike of an excavated pond is
A) Good water drainage
B) Disallowing run off into the fish pond
C) Avoiding soil erosion
D) High water holding capacity
  • 18. 18. A factor that ensures immediate sale of fish as soon as it attains the table/market size is _______
A) Nearness to market
B) Detailed survey of site
C) Fencing of pond area
D) Fast growing species
  • 19. 19. The required thickness of the floor and the wall plasters for a concrete pond are _____ and _______ respectively
A) 7.5cm-5cm
B) 5cm and 7.5cm
C) 7.5-10cm and 5cm
D) 5cm and 7.5-10cm
  • 20. 20. Which part of the pond maintains the water volume?
A) Monk
B) Spillway
C) Dam
D) Ditch
  • 21. 21. One of these fish species is less culturable in Nigeria
A) Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus
B) Clarias gariepinus
C) Tilapia niloticus
D) Gymnarchus niloticus
  • 22. 22. One reason for a 20g/ml carbondioxide level in a water recirculatory system is
A) Microbial degradation
B) Absence of buffer system
C) Adequate photosynthesis
D) Supplementary feeding
  • 23. 23. Pond water nitrogen content is measured in
A) Parts per million
B) Milligram per litre
C) Centimetre
D) Percentage saturation
  • 24. 24. At what level is water hardness maintained for cultured fish
A) 20mg/l
B) 110%
C) 60cm
D) 5ppm
  • 25. 25. In which of these containers is pond water regarded as pure?
A) Recirculatory pond
B) Earthen pond
C) Plastic pond
D) Concrete pond
  • 26. 26. Buffer systems are naturally available in
A) Concrete pond
B) Recirculatory pond
C) Plastic pond
D) Earthen point
  • 27. 27. The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is
A) The interaction of lives with the non living environment
B) The types of lives present in it
C) The nutrient content
D) The number of lives it can support
  • 28. 28. A fish cum cassava farmer will likely use high fiber feedstuffs for
A) Ration
B) Fish feed
C) Compost
D) Forage
  • 29. 29. One of these is wrong about natural foods
A) The are formulated/prepared
B) They can be initiated through decomposition
C) They are life and dead foods
D) Examples are larvae and water lettus
  • 30. 30. Which group of natural food is the worm?
A) Benthos
B) Necton
C) Plankton
D) Detritus
  • 31. 31. The quality and the quantity of plankton in a fish pond means
A) The type and the amount
B) The behaviour and the number
C) The species and the habitat
D) The nutrient and the size
  • 32. 32. One of these is not a supplementary feed of protein source
A) Fish meal
B) Groundnut cake
C) Rumen content
D) Wheat middling
  • 33. 31. Identify the option that is not a problem of too fine feed
A) Wastage
B) Disatisfaction
C) Floating ability
D) Sinking ability
  • 34. 32. Adopting Daily Feeding Rate in fish feeding means
A) Feeding fish with certain mass for a period of time
B) Feeding fish with certain mass of its body weight
C) Feeding fish to compensate for over stocking
D) Feeding fish with certain mass to achieve a known body weight
  • 35. 33. All except one determines the quantity of formulated feed for fish
A) None
B) Stocking rate
C) Natural food
D) Water temperature
  • 36. 34. A volume of 3ml/100l of pond water is a sentinel of adequate
A) Zooplankton
B) Artificial feed
C) Phytoplankton
D) Natural food
  • 37. 35. Machines called extruders make feed in form of
A) Mash
B) Mill
C) Pellet
D) Syrup
  • 38. 36. All except one is a problem due to sedimentation of solids in pond water
A) It smothers fish eggs
B) Beneficial bacteria are killed
C) Aquatic habitat turns land habitat
D) It increases light penetration
  • 39. 37. Photosynthesis occurs in the _______ of a plant's cell
A) Chroloplast
B) Cytoplasm
C) Ribosome
D) Mitochondrion
  • 40. 38. Dissolved oxygen utilization by fish is a function of all except________
A) None
B) Fish metabolism
C) Fish size
D) Water temperature
  • 41. 39. A 5ppm total ammonia at 50% change in temperature has an unionized ammonia content of _____ in a pond water
A) 1.3ppm
B) 1.5ppm
C) 2.5ppm
D) 2.3ppm
  • 42. 40. The pH tolerance range of cultured fish is
A) 4-6.5
B) 6-8
C) 9-10.5
D) 6.5-9
  • 43. 41. A type of pond built by creating a dam is called _______ pond
A) Concrete
B) Excavated
C) Embarkment
D) Earthen
  • 44. 42. A pond area of 500 square meters ideally contains _______ fish seeds/crops
A) 750
B) 250
C) 1000
D) 500
  • 45. 43. The best source of water for intensive aquaculture is
A) Stream
B) Bore hole
C) Lake
D) Well
  • 46. 44. The excavated area in pond construction is the _____
A) Dike
B) Reservoir
C) Dam
D) Core trench
  • 47. 45. Which part of a pond construction is built between the water source and the trench
A) In let
B) Spill way
C) Ditch
D) Out let
  • 48. 46. Liming of the pond serves the following except
A) Regulation of pH
B) Enriching the pond
C) Sealing of leakage
D) Water retention
  • 49. 47. Identify the right order of pond preparation
A) Draining-checking cracks-liming-fertilization
B) Draining-impoundment-liming-stocking
C) Draining- fertilization-liming-impoundment
D) Removing silt-checking cracks-liming-fertilization
  • 50. 48. One of these is built last during pond construction
A) Dam
B) Spillway
C) Dike
D) Trench
  • 51. 50. The percentage biomass that is ideal for calculating DFR is
A) 4.5%
B) 2%
C) 5%
D) 3%
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