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BrE /ˈʃelfɪʃ/NAmE /ˈʃelfɪʃ/

Compound from shell and from fish

Shellfish: a creature with a shell, that lives in water, especially one of the types that can be eaten.

shellfish means fish of the classes Gastropoda and Bivalvia.

✏️ Source -- New South Wales Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2019, Part 1, Section 4 ( New South Wales Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2019 )

shellfish means clams, mussels and oysters; (mollusques et crustacés)

✏️ Source -- Canada Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations, Section 2 ( Canada Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations )

shellfish means Mollusca, Echinodermata and Crustacea; (mollusquesetcrustacés)

✏️ Source -- Canada Pacific Fishery Regulations, 1993, Section 2, Sub-section 1 ( Canada Pacific Fishery Regulations, 1993 )

"shellfish" means any species of the order Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda or Polyplacophora;

✏️ Source -- South Africa Regulations in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act, 1998, Section 1 ( South Africa Regulations in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 )

“shellfish” includes crustaceans and molluscs of any kind, and includes any brood, ware, half-ware, spat or spawn of shellfish

✏️ Source -- Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013, Section 6, Sub-paragraph 63 ( Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013 )

Shellfish; Shellfishes;

NB: Shellfish is the plural form. 'Shellfishes' is only used when referring to various species of shellfish.

The most common types of shellfish farming are:

oyster farming (breeding of oysters);
halioticulture (abalone farming);
mussel farming (mussel farming);
pectiniculture (scallop farming);
veniculture (clam farming);
cerastoculture (cockle farming);
astaciculture is the farming of crayfish;
peneiculture (sea shrimp and freshwater shrimp farming) is practised in France, Prawns are farmed in large quantities in Brazil, the imperial prawns ;