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Aquaculture, the propagation and
husbandry of aquatic plants, animals, and other organisms for
commercial, recreational, and scientific purposes. Aquaculture is an
approximate aquatic equivalent to agriculture—that is, the rearing of
certain marine and freshwater organisms to supplement the natural
supply. This includes production for supplying other aquaculture
operations: providing sources of protein for the public, industrial
products, for stocking sport fisheries, for supplying aquatic bait
animals, for stocking fee-fishing operations, and for supplying feed
stocks to the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
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