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fish farm

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fish farm
n.
A commercial facility consisting of tanks or ponds in which fish are raised for food.

fish-farm (fshfärm) v.
fish farmer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fish farm - a workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food
workplace, work - a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"
Translations
fish farm nvivaio
fish farm nvivaio


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The team proposed that fish farms imperil wild salmon, which must swim past the farms as they migrate to the sea.
Seafood Watch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium advises consumers to avoid all farm-raised Atlantic salmon, recommending only wild Pacific salmon for environmental reasons, notes Jennifer Bianto, program manager of Seafood Watch, an organization focused on the environmental impact of fisheries and fish farms and alerting consumers to seafood health-risk advisories (related to dioxins, pesticides, PCBs, etc.
Continuing problems with Ontario's aquaculture industry were raised in his report, as illustrated by an aerial photograph taken of a former fish farm operation in the La Cloche Channel on Lake Huron.
 
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