salmon-fishery

• “The salmon-fishery and fish-curing are important branches of its trade; and it has also breweries and flour-mills and manufactures snuff and coarse linen.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “As old as she is, she still carries home the great sacks of flour -- a hundred pounds -- on her back, superintends the salmon-fishery for the family, takes care of the _tenas men_ (children), and looks after affairs in general.”

  Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

• “The time, however, had not yet quite arrived when the salmon-fishery commenced; and a few days devoted to Christiania would not debar us from any amusement attached to the long-desired sport.”

  A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition

• “The salmon-fishery at the Larsalf next engaged our traveller's attention.”

  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer

• “Before starting they went a little way up the Sand river, to view one of the grand Norwegian waterfalls, and also to see how the salmon-fishery is conducted.”

  Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley

• “An extensive salmon-fishery is carried on at a large river called the”

  Hudson Bay

• “Jub, suckers, trout, and white-fish, are caught in the lakes; and in the month of October, towards the close of the salmon-fishery, we catch trout of a most exquisite flavour.”

  Handbook to the new Gold-fields

• “It is a small place, with some trade, but the Indians complain sadly that the mills and encroachments of the Whites have destroyed their salmon-fishery, which was their chief resource.”

  Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2

• “Notwithstanding this abundance of flat-fish, cod, and herring, it is on the salmon-fishery alone that the Kamtschadales depend for their winter provisions.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “The salmon-fishery begins in July: that fish is here of an exquisite flavor, but it is extremely fat and oily; which renders it unwholesome for those who are not accustomed to it, and who eat too great a quantity: thus several of our people were attacked with diarrhœa in a few days after we began to make this fish our ordinary sustenance; but they found a remedy in the raspberries of the country which have an astringent property.”

  Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific

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