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Appropriation doctrine

An appropriation doctrine is the system for allocating water to private individuals used in most Western states.

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Aquaculture

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

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Aquatic

Español: Acuático / Português: Aquático

Aquatic is the pertaining to water. Compare terrestrial.

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Aquatic Assemblage

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

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Aquatic Biota

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

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Aquatic Community

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

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Aquatic Insect

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

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Aquatic Life Use

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.

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Aquatic life zone

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

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Aqueduct

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

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