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