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Breed fish one's caught (5)

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I believe the answer is:

raise

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'breed' is the definition.
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'fish one's caught' is the wordplay.
'fish' becomes 'rae' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'one's' becomes 'I's' (Roman numeral).
'caught' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rae' enclosing 'is' is 'RAISE'.

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(Other definitions for raise that I've seen before include "Lift, elevate" , "Inflate" , "Pick up" , "jack up" , "Cultivate by growing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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