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Definition of Fish farm
1. Noun. A workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food.
Definition of Fish farm
1. Noun. A series of tanks, ponds or cages where fish are bred commercially for food, often in seawater. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish Farm
Literary usage of Fish farm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Country: East (1898)
"... A New Hampshire Fish-Farm. Fish-farming, or the breeding of fish by artificial
means, is a comparatively new industry, and as the reader probably knows, ..."
2. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"His fish farm, established with assistance from the government, ... It was shown
that the fish-farm of these men had re-stocked the Moselle with salmon, ..."
3. The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory, William Phipps Blake (1915)
"THE YIELD OF A fish farm. As bearing upon the future possibilities in the Illinois
Kiver valley, it is instructive to quote the somewhat detailed figures of ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1891)
"The splendid fish farm at ... to render it what it is—the most scientific and
complete, though perhaps not the most extensive, fish farm in the world. ..."
5. The British Almanac: Containing Astronomical, Official and Other Information by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1850)
"... being for the most part limited to the flavour of red herring." (No. 137, p.
229.) There should be three ponds in each series or fish-farm; the first ..."
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