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Home Dictionary Name: fresh waterFresh water
Of pertaining to or living in water which is not salty as fresh water geological deposits a fresh water fish fresh water mussels...
Water-bailiff
Water-bailiff, an officer in port towns, whose duty it is to search ships; also an officer appointed under the Salmon Fishery Acts to enforce the provisions of those Acts by searching for illegal engines, etc. See Salmon and Fresh Water Fisheries Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 16), ss. 66 et seq....
Goggle eye
One of two or more species of American fresh water fishes of the family Centrarchidaelig esp Chaelignobryttus antistius of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters and Ambloplites rupestris of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley so called from their prominent eyes...
Langya
One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus remarkable for their power of living out of water and for their tenacity of life called also walking fishes...
Lobster
Any large macrurous crustacean used as food esp those of the genus Homarus as the American lobster Homarus Americanus and the European lobster Homarus vulgaris The Norwegian lobster Nephrops Norvegicus is similar in form All these have a pair of large unequal claws The spiny lobsters of more southern waters belonging to Palinurus Panulirus and allied genera have no large claws The fresh water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters...
Naiad
A water nymph one of the lower female divinities fabled to preside over some body of fresh water as a lake river brook or fountain...
VerbarNuphar
A genus of plants found in the fresh water ponds or lakes of Europe Asia and North America the yellow water lily Cf Nymphaea...
Pool
A small and rather deep collection of usually fresh water as one supplied by a spring or occurring in the course of a stream a reservoir for water as the pools of Solomon...
Coastal acquaculture
Coastal acquaculture, means culturing, under controlled conditions in ponds, pens, enclosers or otherwise, in coastal areas, of shrimp, prawn, fish or any other aquatic life in saline or blackish water; but does not include fresh water aquaculture [Coastal Acquaculture Authority Act, 2005 (24 of 2005), s. 2(c)]...
Poaching
Poaching, taking name by trespass. Also taking fish, e.g., salmon and trout by illegal methods (see infra).Trespassing in the daytime in pursuit of 'game'--i.e., hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, or bustards--or woodcock, snipe, quails, landrail, or rabbits, is punishable summarily by fine up to 2l., and in case of a trespass by five or more, up to 5l.; the leave of the occupier being no defence if the landlord or other person have by reservation the right to kill the game. [See (English) GAME ACT, 1831, ss. 2, 30]Unlawfully taking in the night, i.e., between the expiration of the first hour after sunset and the commencement of the first hour before sunrise, 'game,' as above defined, is punishable summarily by imprisonment with hard labour; and any persons, to the number of three or more, by night unlawfully entering lands, for the purpose of taking or destroying any 'game,' as above defined, or rabbits (any of them being armed with any gun or other ...
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