Suggestion of the day (otherwise known as If Helen Ruled The World edict 127):
We should stop describing ocean fish populations as fish "stocks". They're communities of a living organism, not stacked up items in a pantry waiting for us to take them. Just the use of the word implies that they only have value if we take them, and we need to kick that habit. The natural world is not there only for us to extract/plunder/take/damage for short-term gain (and sometimes not even that).
"Livestock" is a similarly loaded term hiding in plain sight. Unfortunately there's no concise alternative which comes to mind.
Anyway... Vote 1 ☑️ Helen for World Ruler!
The problem is that "domesticated animals" can also refer to pets, while "enslaved animals" can also refer to racehorses and racing dogs, farmed fish, circus animals and so on, and "colonized" is also ambiguous. So they're more like hypernyms for "livestock".
Maybe "farm animals" comes close as a synonym, with "ruminant" added to the description if desired, though sometimes livestock are raised outside of a traditional farm setting. I'd say "farmed animals" but that might include farmed fish as well. I could be overthinking this.
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