Seafood

:For the band, see Seafood (band).

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Seafood is any sea animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. This usually includes sea water animals, such as fish and shellfish (including mollusks, and crustaceans). By extension, the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from fresh water. These aquatic animals are also collectively referred to as seafood.

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Edible seaweeds are rarely considered seafood, even though they come from sea water and are widely eaten around the world. See :Category:Sea vegetables.

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The harvesting of seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation of seafood is known as aquaculture or mariculture. Also see fish farming.

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Sea: A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake without a natural outlet, but the term was applied to it anyway. The term is used col...

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Sea water: Sea water is water from a sea or ocean. On average, sea water in the world's oceans has a salinity of ~3.5%. This means that for every 1 liter (1000mL) of sea water there are 35 grams of salts (mostly, but not entirely, sodium chloride) dissolved in it. This can be expressed as 0.6M NaCl. Water wi...

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