brackishwater
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]brackishwater (usually uncountable, plural brackishwaters)
- Alternative form of brackish water
- 1991, V G Jhingran, Fish and fisheries of India, page 534:
- Recently, however, a system of fish and prawn farming has been developed in specially designed brackishwater ponds.
- 2006, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, State of World Aquaculture, page 10:
- Some 63.1 percent of brackishwater production consists of penaeid shrimps.
- 2006, Carl D Webster, Chhorn Lim, Tilapia: Biology, Culture, and Nutrition, page 371:
- Hybrids between O. mossambicus and other less-tolerant strains also show relatively fast growth rates in brackishwater and full-strength seawater.