How to Use fish farm in a Sentence

fish farm

noun
  • One way to shoot the fish farms is via drones, like Nicklen did in the photo above.
    Ahalya Srikant, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • Around 2010, Constant travelled to Colorado and toured a fish farm on the grounds of a prison in Cañon City.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • How did you get drawn into the pushback against these fish farms?
    Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Only one offshore fish farm has been proposed in the Gulf to date.
    al, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Anglers flock to the fish farm from all over the world, hoping to catch her or one of the other giant species found in the lakes.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022
  • As such, guests of the fish farm do not need fishing licenses.
    John Bordsen, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Still to come: An ornamental fish farm, a hemp farm, a Wagyu beef farm and more.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 27 July 2022
  • But fish farms have to start with glass eels as their raw material.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Boats from a local fish farm were attempting to pull whales that remained in the sea farther away from the shore.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • On the edge of a hill sprinkled with sheep, above a quiet two-lane highway, sits the smolt site for HiddenFjord fish farm.
    Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
  • Asian carp were imported in the late 1960s to gobble up algae in Deep South sewage lagoons and fish farms.
    John Flesher, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The inspector also could not confirm the Fort Ward anchors were inside the lease boundary for the fish farm.
    Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The following spring, the Walmart that had been turned into a fish farm was demolished.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • During the first week of the month, the canal system is replenished with a new batch of white amur fish trucked in from a fish farm in Arkansas, where they are grown in ponds.
    Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2024
  • They're also raised in fish farms and marketed as cheaper to eat than halibut or Chilean sea bass.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Asian carp were imported to gobble up algae in Deep South sewage lagoons and fish farms.
    John Flesher, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The event sparked scrutiny of Atlantic salmon and commercial fish farms.
    Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Msangi said keeping the fish out of the ocean can keep them free of sea lice, microplastics and other toxins that have doomed other fish farms.
    Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Water that sluices through the dike during the wet season may be enough to bring some fish farms back to what was once the main part of the lake, but that's—quite literally—just a drop in the bucket.
    Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2018
  • Mr Belton has found similar trends in Myanmar, where the fish farms are often larger than in Bangladesh, and in India.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The former owners grew greens in addition to operating a tilapia fish farm; all the equipment is still there.
    Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Some took tough work that Koreans do not want — on fishing boats or fish farms making the legal minimum wage of about $1,500 a month.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 June 2018
  • But the company’s eventual targets are fish farms raising salmon, trout and sea bass.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • His is a forward-looking fish farm, with electric paddle wheels to keep the water oxygenated.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But even as the run declined, a commercial fishery has continued stripping roe for sale in Japan, sending herring flesh to the grinder for use in fish farms.
    Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The indoor fish farm poses no competitive threat to open-air farmers.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Weighing an estimated 882 pounds and originating from a nearby fish farm, there was no telling how long the ghost net had been there.
    Elena Bectoros, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2018
  • Black soldier fly larvae production has gained a handful of approvals in Europe, Canada, and the US, mostly for use in fish farms.
    Karl Plume, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The eels are popular in Spanish cuisine, and they’re used to seed fish farms in China, where adult eels are harvested and sold to Japanese sushi markets.
    Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
  • There are these two venture capitalists who want to start [a fish farm] there and the majority of the people who live by this fjord don’t want it and have been protesting in the streets and started a legal case.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023

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