Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The artificial breeding of fish; pisciculture.
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Examples
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Jaffe displayed some of his “yellowfin” trout at a fish-culture exposition in Paris, where they were awarded first prize.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Jaffe displayed some of his “yellowfin” trout at a fish-culture exposition in Paris, where they were awarded first prize.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Jaffe displayed some of his “yellowfin” trout at a fish-culture exposition in Paris, where they were awarded first prize.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Jaffe displayed some of his “yellowfin” trout at a fish-culture exposition in Paris, where they were awarded first prize.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The units responsible for developing aquatic products advocated, demonstrated, and extended advanced fish-culture technology.
Chapter 4 1995
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In the Great Lakes the fishing is so heavy that it is probable that the supply of perch and white fish would be very low by this time if fish-culture had not been carried on to so great an extent.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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No house is complete without its tiny garden of dwarf trees, its model lakes, in which that curiosity of fish-culture, the many tailed gold and silver fish, are to be seen disporting themselves; its rockeries spanned by bridges; its boats and junks floating about on the surface of the lakes, in fact a Japanese landscape in miniature.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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One more modern feature, which is also a result of the increase of anglers, is the great advance made in fish-culture, fish-stocking and fish-acclimatization during the last half-century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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On the continent of Europe the latter half of the 19th century saw a very considerable and rapid development in fish-culture, but until comparatively recently the propagation and care of fish in most European waters have been considered almost entirely from the point of view of the fish-stew and the market.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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It was this personal contact with the fish-culture work, this direct demonstration of the money value to the country of scientific knowledge, which became Colin's stimulus.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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