fishery

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In America, Conant and three of the more industrious settlers remained, but as the fishery was abandoned, they withdrew with the cattle from the exposed promontory at Cape Ann to Naumkeag, afterwards Salem.

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  1. noun The industry or occupation devoted to the catching, processing, or selling of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals.
  2. noun A place where fish or other aquatic animals are caught.
  3. noun A fishing business.
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  • And there's this-the Alaska fishery is our last healthy fishing ground. —  Destroyer 106: White Water
  • Create a crocodile 'fishery' - used science to develop a sustainable quota, and make it mandatory that the crocodiles are fully utilised, and killed humanely. —  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • This fishery was the first to fail on the north coast, before the Klamath and before the Sacramento. —  The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum
  • In Newfoundland and Labrador, the fishery is a cult. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Under the successful system, ownership shares of a fishery are allocated to individuals, cooperatives, communities or other entities. —  Starbulletin Headlines
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  1. = Dutch visscherij = Middle Low German vischerie = German fischerei = Danish Swedish fiskeri; as fish + -ery.
 

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