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Deutsch: Aquakultur / Español: Acuicultura / Português: Aquacultura / Français: Aquaculture / Italiano: Acquacoltura /

An aquaculture is the controlled rearing of fish or shellfish by people or corporations who own the harvestable product, often involving the capture of the eggs or young of a species

Español: Acuático / Português: Aquático

Aquatic is the pertaining to water. Compare terrestrial.

An Aquatic Assemblage is an Organism group of interacting populations in a given waterbody, for example, fish assemblage or a Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage.

An Aquatic Biota is collective term describing the organisms living in or depending on the Aquatic environment.

An Aquatic Community is association of interacting assemblages in a given waterbody, the biotic Component of an ecosystem (see also Aquatic assemblage).

An Aquatic Insect is Insect species whose larval and/or juvenile forms live in the water.

An Aquatic Life Use is a beneficial use designation in which the waterbody provides suitable habitat for survival and reproduction of desirable fish, shellfish, and other aquatic organisms.

Aquatic life zone is the marine and freshwater portions of the biosphere.

An aqueduct is a pipe, conduit, or channel designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity.

An Aqueous is something made up of water.

see also:
"Aqueous" is in the HS Code "3212"

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