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Medieval fish pond still in use today at Long Clawson, Leicestershire. Records of the use of fish ponds can be found from the early Middle Ages. "The idealized eighth-century estate of Charlemagne's capitulary de villis was to have artificial fishponds but two hundred years later, facilities for raising fish remained very rare, even on monastic estates.".
The forest was progressively reduced and developed over the centuries, with Fishponds first recorded as the "Newe Pooles" in 1610, and subsequently "Fish Ponds" by 1734. [4] By the 17th century it was a thriving village with numerous stone-built cottages for miners and quarrymen for coal and pennant stone.
The fishponds of the Třeboň Basin or Třeboň fishpond system (Czech: Třeboňská rybniční soustava) are a collection of over five hundred fish ponds.They were constructed from the 13th century onwards in the Třeboň Basin area of Bohemia, now the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, with most work occurring between the 15th and 16th centuries, and collectively cover ...
Fish Ponds is one of the locations where the Mojave River rose to run on the surface of its course through the Mojave Desert. The site is located in the river bed in Nebo Center, in the eastern part of Barstow, in San Bernardino County, California. Fish Ponds was named for the Mohave chub that were to be found in the ponds in that location.
The technical distinction between a pond and a lake has not been universally standardized. Limnologists and freshwater biologists have proposed formal definitions for pond, in part to include 'bodies of water where light penetrates to the bottom of the waterbody', 'bodies of water shallow enough for rooted water plants to grow throughout', and 'bodies of water which lack wave action on the ...
Taro fish ponds were usually located close to the sea and contained surplus of fish. Fish were also able to directly enter the taro patch-fishponds from the sea through newly created artificial estuary. [5] Fish in these ponds thrived and were able to survive the transition from seawater to freshwater.
Pages in category "Fish ponds" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Ečka fish pond (Serbian Cyrillic: Рибњак Ечка, romanized: Ribnjak Ečka) is the largest fish pond in Serbia and among the largest in Europe. [1] It is located in the plains of western Banat region, near the confluence of the Begej river into the Tisa, south of the city of Zrenjanin.