Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The breeding, hatching, and rearing of fish under controlled conditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The breeding, rearing, preservation, feeding, and fattening of fish by artificial means; fish-culture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Fish culture. See under
fish .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
rearing orcultivation offish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And perhaps not without effect; for salmon are there still; and will be more and more as French 'pisciculture' develops itself under Government supervision.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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He busied himself with great questions: the social problem: moralisation of the poorer classes, pisciculture, caoutchouc, railways, etc.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Abbé Proyart, the missionaries taught the art of pisciculture near the village of Kilonga, where they formed their first establishment.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Aquaculture is often cited as another source of schistosomiasis infection, and it may be when pisciculture of freshwater fish is concerned.
Chapter 8 1996
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The other approach involves an integrated system of a night soil gas plant, algal culture, and pisciculture.
Chapter 13 1979
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Nor was his fondness for pisciculture exceptional in his times.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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We follow pisciculture from necessity or economy, because fish of certain kinds are yearly dying out, and to produce
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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It has a number of admirable public buildings, while, among several parks and recreation grounds, mention must be made of the fine botanical garden, 750 acres in extent, [v. 03 p. 0269] where, in Lake Wendouree, pisciculture is carried on with great success.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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In 1867 he was appointed government inspector of fisheries, and in the course of his work travelled constantly about the country, being largely responsible for the increased attention paid to the scientific side of pisciculture.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Modern pisciculture in some measure imitates, although, it does not rival the ancient.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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