How to Use aquaculture in a Sentence

aquaculture

noun
  • Keep aquaculture healthy for the fish as well as the ocean.
    — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Poly is one of two schools in the city with the aquaculture program.
    — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • First there were thousands of dead salmon in aquaculture cages.
    — National Geographic, 17 May 2016
  • Could it be transmitted from sea star to sea star or spread through aquaculture?
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The top marine aquaculture species were oysters, clams and salmon.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2020
  • But the main reason aquaculture is booming is that cities are booming, too.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In Norway, there are hundreds of times more salmon in aquaculture than in the wild.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Global demand for fish has driven the rise of aquaculture, or the farming of fish.
    — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Those that live in rural barns, feed lots, or aquaculture ponds are monitored by cameras.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Their catch would be turned into protein-rich fishmeal that gets fed to chickens, pigs and aquaculture fish.
    — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But six years later thirteen hundred square miles of mangroves had been lost to palm-oil and rice farms and shrimp aquaculture.
    — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Brine shrimp are a critical food source for the aquaculture industry.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Offshore aquaculture projects have a harder time finding investors because the ocean is seen as a black box.
    — Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That problem is not specific to aquaculture, or to Bangladesh.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The fourth pilot will further the port’s aquaculture ambitions to grow oysters in the bay.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2017
  • The pens are different from aquaculture pens used by North Korea to raise fish.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2020
  • As a result, aquaculture is a big part of the Belizean economy.
    — Nydia Simone, refinery29.com, 16 June 2022
  • There are no aquaculture farms in the closed area, according to MDE.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Once Europeans arrived in the area, clam aquaculture fell by the wayside.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2019
  • At the time, aquaculture was just taking off in the country, which now has 4 million household ponds raising fish.
    — David Pitt, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
  • The students have cilantro as their next sharing crop, and in the fall, tilapia from the school’s aquaculture program will be used for a fish fry for students.
    — Charles Selle, Lake County News-Sun, 9 Apr. 2018
  • And that’s just aquaculture—one of more than a half-dozen markets under the blue economy umbrella.
    — Daria Solovieva, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2021
  • That’s aquaculture—the fastest growing form of animal farming on the planet.
    — Matthew Prescott, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Mangrove trees are cut down for aquaculture, logged for charcoal and destroyed to make room for coastal development.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The eels are sold to Asian aquaculture companies that use them as seed stock so they can be raised to maturity and used as food.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Human consumption of fish has now overtaken that of beef, and aquaculture accounts for half of all the fish people eat.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The storm battered six states, causing billions of dollars in losses to crops, livestock, and aquaculture.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller / Grist, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024
  • In the mid-1990s, the dollar value of aquaculture didn’t even crack six digits.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The seller says a buyer could grow the aquaculture business or convert the land into a tourist attraction.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The tiny, translucent eels are sold to Asian aquaculture companies to be raised to maturity for use as food.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018

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