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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act, art, or industry of propagating fish by artificial means; fish-culture; pisciculture.

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Examples

  • Even in Mexican bays where they have yanked out the last significant stands of bird-flocked, fish-breeding mangroves and replaced them with box hotels built by greed-sick developers from Denver.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • Fish Tycoon is a real-time fish-breeding sim, where you start off with a handful of fish and a solitary tank, and then breed them and care for them and cure them of illnesses while selling your own exotic hybrid fish in your special Fish Tycoon shop.

    SLACKERJACK – Bass Tournament Tycoon 2006

  • As I gazed at a landscape of bicycle paths, flower gardens, reforested hills, fish-breeding ponds, and prefabricated farm sheds and subdivisions, Mitch talked nonstop about Israel, revealing changes for which the international media — at the time concerned mainly with the peace process and Israeli politics — had not prepared me.

    Israel Now 2000

  • As I gazed at a landscape of bicycle paths, flower gardens, reforested hills, fish-breeding ponds, and prefabricated farm sheds and subdivisions, Mitch talked nonstop about Israel, revealing changes for which the international media — at the time concerned mainly with the peace process and Israeli politics — had not prepared me.

    Israel Now 2000

  • Hence, the revived attention to fish-breeding, an art wellnigh forgotten since the Reformation emptied the carp-ponds of the monks.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Although fish-breeding is not what it was, many of the Sussex ponds are still regularly dragged, and the proceeds sold in advance to a London firm.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • In England the movement owes a great deal to Francis Francis, who, though he was not the earliest worker in the field, was among the first to formulate the science of fish-breeding; his book _Fish-Culture_, first published in 1863, still remains one of the best treatises on the subject.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • As soon as the Germans came to Montdidier they proceeded to blow up the banks of the fish-breeding ponds with dynamite, and cover the streams with petroleum in order to kill all the fish in them.

    Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

  • Yonathan Zohar spent a decade developing an indoor fish-breeding system that also captures alternative-energy source methane gas.

    Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010

  • Yonathan Zohar spent a decade developing an indoor fish-breeding system that also captures alternative-energy source methane gas.

    San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010

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