How to Use fish farm in a Sentence

fish farm

noun
  • Ever wanted to own a fish farm?
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • How did you get drawn into the pushback against these fish farms?
    — Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2023
  • One way to shoot the fish farms is via drones, like Nicklen did in the photo above.
    — Ahalya Srikant, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • But fish farms have to start with glass eels as their raw material.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • As such, guests of the fish farm do not need fishing licenses.
    — John Bordsen, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • There was not much the fish farm’s workers could do, other than pick it out and soldier on.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Only one offshore fish farm has been proposed in the Gulf to date.
    — al, 29 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the company’s eventual targets are fish farms raising salmon, trout and sea bass.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • The indoor fish farm poses no competitive threat to open-air farmers.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • However, even fish farms are struggling to keep up with burgeoning demand.
    — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The event sparked scrutiny of Atlantic salmon and commercial fish farms.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 2018
  • His is a forward-looking fish farm, with electric paddle wheels to keep the water oxygenated.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Asian carp were imported to gobble up algae in Deep South sewage lagoons and fish farms.
    — John Flesher, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The following spring, the Walmart that had been turned into a fish farm was demolished.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But a series of floods in the Midwest washed the carp from fish farms into major rivers, where their populations have boomed.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Along the coasts of Spain and Italy, dolphins swim around fish farms to herd the fish that gather around floating rafts of mussels or shellfish.
    — Jaimie Seaton, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • These devices emit pulses of high-frequency sound and may be used to deter cetaceans from approaching fishing gear or to keep pinnipeds away from fish farms.
    — Gabriella Sotelo, Treehugger, 14 July 2023
  • Now, the village is home to more than 400 families, a fish farm, and several notable seafood restaurants.
    — Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Mowi, the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon, operates this fish farm in the waters off Norway.
    — Rajesh Jadhav, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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