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