- 母川
- ぼせん【母川】母川回帰 homing to the mother river; the return (of salmon) to the river of their birth.母川国 〔遡河性魚種の〕 a state of origin (of anadromous stock).
●母川国主義 the state of origin principle; the principle that fish belong to the country in whose rivers they spawn.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.