fish hatchery

noun

a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Humpback whales in Alaska, though, have figured out they can get a free meal of tiny salmon by hanging out at fish hatcheries.

At the head of the lake is a hotel and a fish hatchery; no store, no factory, not even a Chautauqua.

Soon we are racing across the level to the Fish Hatchery, between avenues of quaking aspens and young tamaracks and pines.

A fish hatchery has been established at Port Erin by the insular government.

The federal government maintains here a life-saving station on Minnesota Point, and an extensive fish hatchery.

And all because a turtle-fed, claret-flushed, idle and rich young man wants their earthly Paradise for a fish-hatchery.

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