How to Earn Money with Fishfarming. Part 1 Basics

There exist many poor or unemployed people worldwide.   The best opportunity for them to earn their living,    to work  as a self employed person.

But also for self employed people it can be interesting, to find additional opportunities to earn money, because it is always safer to have  several  income sources.

We will therefore discuss several opportunities in the category:   How to earn money.   It is good to have a core business, but we  should also try, to learn enough about other businesses, so that we can start with a new business, if the core business runs into problems.

Here we discuss, how we could earn money with fish farming.

• Assuming, that not much money is available, we have to start small, but with the goal, to earn  our living in the future.
• How do we start, if we know  nothing about fish farming ?  The easiest way is, to search in the internet, starting   with   http://www.wikipedia.org  
• Using the search words     "fish farming" ,   we are directly  led to the main article  at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farm 

This article gives us a good first overview, so that we know enough, to focus on the topics of fish farming, which are of interest for us.

What do we learn from this article ?

• extensive fish farming is done in lakes or at sea  coasts. But it is not of interest for us, because we need large lakes to live from.
• The most common fishes raised are: salmon,carp,tilapia, catfish and cod.
•  intensive aquaculture:   With intensive aquaculture, we can raise a lot of fishes in  tanks, combined with the culture of vegetables and need  not much  footprint, to live from.

Therefore this will be our choice, to focus on  in part 2:   Aquaponics