Fishery Definition

fĭshə-rē
fisheries
noun
fisheries
The business of catching, packing, or selling fish, or lobsters, shrimp, etc.
Webster's New World
A place where fish, etc. are caught; fishing ground.
Webster's New World
A fishing business.
American Heritage
The legal right to catch fish in certain waters or at certain times.
Webster's New World
A place where fish are bred.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Fishery

Noun

Singular:
fishery
Plural:
fisheries

Fishery Sentence Examples

  • There is also a profitable shark fishery in the hands of Arabs.

  • Neither the tunny nor the coral fishery is carried on by the Sardinians themselves, who are not sailors by nature; the former is in the hands of Genoese and the latter of Neapolitans.

  • Pietro, forms a more or less protected basin, upon the shores of which are several small harbours (the most important being Carloforte), which are centres of the export of minerals and of the tunny fishery.

  • The shrimp fishery, too, grew during the same period.

  • The chief part of the population were employed in the oyster fishery.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIS

Words Ending With

YRYERY

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Words Starting With F and Ending With Y

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With F7 Letter Words Ending With Y