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aquaculture

fishery
Also known as: aquiculture, fish culture, fish farming, mariculture(Show More)
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Clyde H. Amundson
Director, Aquaculture Research Center; Professor and Chairman, Department of Food Science; Professor of Oceanography and Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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aquaculture, the propagation and husbandry of aquatic plants, animals, and other organisms for commercial, recreational, and scientific purposes. Aquaculture is an approximate aquatic equivalent to agricultureā€”that is, the rearing of certain marine and freshwater organisms to supplement the natural supply. This includes production for supplying other aquaculture operations, for providing food and industrial products, for stocking sport fisheries, for supplying aquatic bait animals, for stocking fee-fishing operations, for providing aquatic organisms for ornamental purposes, and...

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