despond
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Indigenous aquaculture systems in Hawaii, known as loko i'a or fishponds, can increase the amount of fish and fisheries harvested both inside and outside of the pond.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024
In Xiaoxihe, a rolling eastern Chinese region of rice paddies and fishponds, farmers speak of land ownership as something so improbable that it defies imagination.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019
The fishponds and lagoons are on the state historic registry and will be preserved.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2018
During Lu’s youth, fields and fishponds surrounded Xian village, and the Lu family planted rice and vegetables and raised livestock.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2015
Hawaii was also unique within Polynesia in using mass labor for aquaculture, by constructing large fishponds in which milkfish and mullet were grown.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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