stickwater

9.9

Liquid left after cooking fish for oil that contains nutrients and small pieces

noun

Specialized

: agua de pescado

After cooking the fish for oil extraction, the leftover liquid is called stickwater and contains valuable nutrients.

Examples

Fish oil is eventually pumped to storage tanks, while the aqueous fraction or "stickwater" passes through evaporators which concentrate the fraction to a syrup-like consistency.

Academic text (1991)
This wash-down water is recycled through the entire offloading process and is eventually moved to storage tanks as "stickwater" (see below).

Academic text (1991)
The factory uses stickwater from fish processing to create nutritious feed for livestock.
To maximize the benefits of fish processing, many companies collect stickwater for its high nutrient content.

How Concentrated

concentrate

10 5.2

stock

43 1.4

stickwater

Specialized

9.9

broth

66 1.0

brothy

1 4.1

water

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

stickwater singular

stickwaters plural

Morphology

stickwater = stick + water (opaque) = stick + water

Although formed from the words 'stick' and 'water', the term is an industry-specific name for a fish-processing byproduct and its precise meaning is not derivable by a typical learner from the components.

Etymology

Stickwater comes from the simple parts stick and water and suggests 'sticky' or 'thick' water, the oily, cloudy liquid left when fish are cooked for oil. That's why stickwater means the watery byproduct full of nutrients and small solids.