Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The industry or occupation devoted to the catching, processing, or selling of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals.
- n. A place where fish or other aquatic animals are caught.
- n. A fishing business.
- n. A hatchery for fish.
- n. The legal right to fish in specified waters or areas.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The business of catching fish; the fishing industry.
- n. In law, a right of fishing in certain waters.
- n. A place where fish are regularly caught, or other products of the sea or rivers are taken from the water by fishing, diving, dredging, etc.: as, a salmon-fishery; a pearl-fishery; the fisheries of the coast.
- n. The exercise of the right to fish; a fishing venture or season.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable the catching, processing and marketing of fish, shellfish etc
- n. countable a place where fish etc are caught or processed
- n. countable a fishing company
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
- n. A place for catching fish.
- n. (Law) The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
Examples
“Alas, the fishery is a pale ghost of its former glory.”
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“Let me state clearly that the fishery is the backbone of our economy and it will be the foundation on which the economic and social life of Newfoundland will depend for generations to come.”
“I feel that the comm'l fishery is wasted on the majority of the permit holders (there are approximately 4000 +/-) who are not fisheries income dependent, but are looking to subsidize a very expensive hobby.”
“But in the 1990s the fluke fishery from the Carolinas up to Maine was decimated.”
“The bluefin tuna fishery is highly regulated in the US, the problem lies in Japan and other parts of the world that do not adhere to their quotas.”
“Here in jersey, the Striper fishery is Closed Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, though the water is usually a bit cold, they can still be caught in early Jan. +1 Good Comment?”
“The Great Lakes fishery is whole, all the lakes are connected.”
“The west acts as if there fishery is a pure one, we all know that isn't the case.”
“I absolutely agree that the Manzanillo fishery is not your typical flats environment and it is not a place where you can “feed” these big fish.”
“If a fishery is depleted, this is a failure of management.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fishery’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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PECH - fishing technology
anchor, berth, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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Mobying Along
looks like there's not an open Moby Dick list. So now there is.
hypos, Manhattoes, circumambulate, mole, grapnels, bowsprit, asphaltic, mazy, tranced, cataract, ungraspable, judgmatically and 227 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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PECH - general terms
downstream activity, downstream sector, discards, depletion of stocks, demolition of fis..., direct restocking, distant water and..., conservation refe..., deep-sea fishing, country of flag, biological recove..., discarded catch and 153 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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thing
apron, lard, clove, camphor, alfalfa, amber, caraway, juniper, kohl, lute, shale, glyph and 142 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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Fishful thinking
"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absent-mindedly transformed into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny multicolored fish."
Assortment of fishy or somehow entertaining fish...piscary, fishery, hatchery, pisces, piscine, piscation, piscatorial, pescetarian, piscivorous, expiscate, expiscatory, fishmonger and 81 more...
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etymology
preferential, hind, kindling, nonsignificant, intervening, mistakenly, syntactic, streamlined, impassion, impure, involuntary, plaint and 57 more...
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A Place for Everything
spicery, creamery, perfumery, confectionery, bakery, fishery, chandlery, beanery, grocery, ashery, haberdashery, carvery and 54 more...
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