Table 2. Summary of stocking and ancillary enhancemenet practices at various intensities of input
Developed
(Temperate)
Developing
(Tropical)
Objectives         Conservation
        Recreation
        Provision of food
            Income
Mechanisms         Sport fisheries
        Habitat restoration
            Environmentally sound stocking
    
    
        Intensive, discrete, industrialized
aquaculture
        Food fisheries
            Habitat modification
        Enhancement through intensive
stocking and management of
ecosystem
        Extensive, integrated, rural
aquaculture
Economic         Net consumer
        Capital intensive
            Profit
        Net producer
            Labour intensive
            Production