fishing banks

American  

plural noun

1. a relatively shallow area of the sea in which fish are usually abundant.

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Etymology

Origin of fishing banks

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

As recently as 1947, 31 per cent of Grimsby vessels either had no lavatories or unusable ones … And working hours once the fishing banks have been reached are extremely long — 18 hours a day is commonplace.

From Nature

"Having lines," he says, "we proceeded to the fishing banks without the harbor, and fished for cod, but it not being a proper time of tide, we caught but two."

From Project Gutenberg

That it is essential to the welfare of all these United States, that the inhabitants thereof, at the expiration of the war, should continue to enjoy the free and undisturbed exercise of their common right to fish on the Banks of Newfoundland, and the other fishing banks and seas of North America, preserving inviolate the treaties between France and the said States, &c. &c. 3dly.

From Project Gutenberg

The fishing banks off Sandy Hook and Long Branch yield thousands of these fish annually.

From Project Gutenberg

We sprang a leak two days ago, out on the fishing banks, and have been at the pumps ever since.

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