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A stew pond or stewpond or stew is a fish pond used to store live fish ready for eating.[1]
In medieval Europe, monasteries often maintained attached stews to supply fish over the winter.
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edit- ^ Nash, Colin (2011) The History of Aquaculture p. 28–29, John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0-8138-2163-4.
- Woolrych, Humphry William (1853) A treatise of the law of waters p. 133, T & J W Johnson.
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