Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where fish-breeding or pisciculture is carried on.

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Examples

  • As these fragile young fish, known as smolts, run the gauntlet past the fish-farm cages conveniently placed on their migration routes down the sea lochs towards the open sea, they are ambushed by the unnaturally high concentrations of lice.

    You're so wrong about salmon, Mr Salmond | Andrew Flitcroft 2011

  • We have seen how a $100 loan through IFAD's micro-credit program enabled an impoverished woman in Bangladesh to open a fish-farm, expand into poultry farming and send her children for higher education.

    Ambassador Ertharin Cousin: Hunger at Thanksgiving Ambassador Ertharin Cousin 2011

  • We have seen how a $100 loan through IFAD's micro-credit program enabled an impoverished woman in Bangladesh to open a fish-farm, expand into poultry farming and send her children for higher education.

    Ambassador Ertharin Cousin: Hunger at Thanksgiving Ambassador Ertharin Cousin 2011

  • The young wild fish, known as smolts, which migrate from the rivers to the sea each spring, cannot cope with more than the odd louse yet now must run the gauntlet past the fish-farm cages on their migration routes.

    Scotland's wild salmon face 'calamity' from trade deal with China 2011

  • We have seen how a $100 loan through IFAD's micro-credit program enabled an impoverished woman in Bangladesh to open a fish-farm, expand into poultry farming and send her children for higher education.

    Ambassador Ertharin Cousin: Hunger at Thanksgiving Ambassador Ertharin Cousin 2011

  • We have seen how a $100 loan through IFAD's micro-credit program enabled an impoverished woman in Bangladesh to open a fish-farm, expand into poultry farming and send her children for higher education.

    Ambassador Ertharin Cousin: Hunger at Thanksgiving Ambassador Ertharin Cousin 2011

  • The wild ocean, however, was of decreasing concern to China, which was the first country in the world in which fish-farm output exceeded the oceanic catch.40 Most of the flounder, sea bream, shrimp, and other marine products in the markets of Qingdao come from aquaculture, a growing source of the nitrates that algae thrive on.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The wild ocean, however, was of decreasing concern to China, which was the first country in the world in which fish-farm output exceeded the oceanic catch.40 Most of the flounder, sea bream, shrimp, and other marine products in the markets of Qingdao come from aquaculture, a growing source of the nitrates that algae thrive on.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The wild ocean, however, was of decreasing concern to China, which was the first country in the world in which fish-farm output exceeded the oceanic catch.40 Most of the flounder, sea bream, shrimp, and other marine products in the markets of Qingdao come from aquaculture, a growing source of the nitrates that algae thrive on.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • It is a fish-farm that doubles as an innovative architectural body, providing a network of bridges, multi-level pathways and accessible connections across the riverbanks, while contemporaneously purifying and treating the canal's water.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

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