fishery
[fish-uh-ree]
- a place where fish are bred; fish hatchery.
- a place where fish or shellfish are caught.
- the occupation or industry of catching, processing, or selling fish or shellfish.
- Law. the right to fish in certain waters or at certain times.
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Origin of fishery
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shooting, fishery, angling, fishing, sporting, trapping, stalking, coursing, hawking, fowling, falconry, veneryExamples from the Web for fishery
Contemporary Examples of fishery
The credits relieved the sailors and owners of tariffs, essentially tax payments they had to make on supplies for the fishery.
Management of the fishery is intertwined with the profitability of the fishing industry and politics of power.
Historical Examples of fishery
The Eastern States may claim it for their fishery, and for other objects, as the Southn.
There were the fishery huts and the men curing and drying fish.
A Little Girl in Old SalemAmanda Minnie Douglas
I'm glad to get away alive from the decaying millions of oysters at the fishery.
East of SuezFrederic Courtland Penfield
Consequently, only a limited number are allowed to take part in the fishery.
East of SuezFrederic Courtland Penfield
In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers.
Moby Dick; or The WhaleHerman Melville
fishery
- the industry of catching, processing, and selling fish
- a place where this is carried on
- a place where fish are reared
- a fishing ground
- another word for piscary (def. 2)
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