pisciculturen.
/ˈpɪsᵻˌkʌltʃə/, U.S. /ˈpɪsəˌkəltʃər/ The artificial or controlled breeding and rearing of fish; fish farming.
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pisciculture1807
water farming1811
fish-breeding1860
fish-hatching1862
fish-culture1865
aquiculture1867
mariculture1867
fish-farming1869
pond culture1883
aquaculture1887
aquafarming1896
sea-farming1962
1807 H. S. Thomas (title) Report on pisciculture in South Canara.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiv. 608 The monks were said to have been skilled in pisciculture.
1899 Times 5 June 15/2 Agricultural periodicals in France treat aquiculture—including, of course, pisciculture—as coming naturally within their purview.
1941 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 10 357 Most of the knowledge..gained about both trout and pisciculture is..distributed amongst various scientific and semi-scientific periodicals.
1990 Times of India 17 May 7/1 The cyclonic fury has led to the death of scores of fish in the lake, a major centre of pisciculture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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