anti-fouling agent

anti-fouling agent
a paint used to protect ships or aquaculture cages from attaching organisms. Now regulated in aquaculture because of their build-up in fish tissues and replaced by biodegradable and less toxic products

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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