pisciculture

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Here pisciculture, or, to use a far better and more euphonious word, fish-farming, is carried to the highest perfection in Great Britain.

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  1. noun The breeding, hatching, and rearing of fish under controlled conditions.

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  • Promote horticulture, floriculture, pisciculture and poultry for generating additional jobs and supplementing incomes. —  REFLECTIONS
  • There are hundreds of water bodies for prawn culture and sweet water pisciculture. —  Kafila
  • Densely populated (867 per sq km.) with a 62\% literacy rate, its main workforce comprises cultivators, agricultural labourers with pisciculture as a major occupation (Census, 1991). —  Kafila
  • Here pisciculture, or, to use a far better and more euphonious word, fish-farming, is carried to the highest perfection in Great Britain. —  A Walk from London to John O'Groat's
  • Experimental pisciculture has been highly successful in the United States, and will probably soon become a regular branch of rural industry, especially as Congress, at the session of 1871-2, made liberal provision for its promotion The restoration of the primitive abundance of salt and fresh water fish, is perhaps the greatest material benefit that, with our present physical resources, governments can hope to confer upon their subjects. —  The Earth as Modified by Human Action
 

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  1. = French pisciculture = Portuguese piscicultura, from Latin piscis, fish, + cultura, cultivation: see culture.
 

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/ˈpɪsɪknltʃr/
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