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Seed' appears to be an industrial/technical term in fish farming used to refer either collectively to the juvenile life stages of fish (hatchling, spawn, fry and fingerling), or specifically to fry (the stage after the yolk sac disappears and before scales form).

It is used in contrast to broodstock or broodfish - essentially, it is what you collect from broodfish, or from the wild, to start a new farming 'batch' (fish farming is a batch process). It sounds like it can be used as a mass noun.

It is surprisingly difficult to find anywhere this definition is stated straightforwardly, although it is used in multiple places in the fish farming literature. However, the definition can be inferred from the context. For example, it is used as a collective heading for the columns "Feeding fry", "Dhani"  and "Fingerling" in Table 3 (Section 2.1.2, "Broodfish requirement") of the. However, in the FAO document  and it appears to be used interchangeably with 'fry'. It is clearly differentiated from eggs; for example in the Slideshare presentation above it is mentioned that seed is produced by hatcheries (so consists of hatched fish).