broodstock

English

Etymology

From brood +‎ stock.

Noun

broodstock (countable and uncountable, plural broodstocks)

1. (aquaculture) A group of sexually mature individuals of a cultured species that is kept separate for breeding purposes.
   • 2007 September 18, Henry Fountain, “A New Hope for Endangered Fish: Surrogate Breeding”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     So the spermatogonia of an endangered species could be kept preserved and used to produce male and female broodstock to help rebuild populations.

Translations

group of mature fish kept for breeding

• Finnish: emokalasto, emokalakanta