brackishwater

plural brackishwaters

1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of brackish water.

   Some 63.1 percent of brackishwater production consists of penaeid shrimps.

   2006, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, State of World Aquaculture, page 10

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   Recently, however, a system of fish and prawn farming has been developed in specially designed brackishwater ponds.

   1991, V G Jhingran, Fish and fisheries of India, page 534

   Hybrids between O. mossambicus and other less-tolerant strains also show relatively fast growth rates in brackishwater and full-strength seawater.

   2006, Carl D Webster, Chhorn Lim, Tilapia: Biology, Culture, and Nutrition, page 371