English edit

Etymology edit

fish +‎ cam

Noun edit

fishcam (plural fishcams)

  1. A webcam used to capture and publish images of fish.
    • 1997, Kevin Marlowe, Jeff Rowe, Microsoft Office 97 Internet developer's guide, page 39:
      We now have radio and TV broadcasts over the Web, fishcams, satellite weather maps, pictures of naked women, bulletin boards, database interfaces, Web search programs, and who knows what else?
    • 1999, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 47, numbers 5-8, page 156:
      [] D. J. Riebesell [] chronicles his fishkeeping on the web and is an early adoptee of fishtank webcams. He has not one but two fishcams, one for a community tank and one for a tank of C. frontosa.
    • 2007, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Fisher, The River Cottage Fish Book, page 590:
      The website has a fishcam, so you can look at your fish before you buy.