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fishery Definition

fish·ery (fis̸h′ər ē)

noun pl. -·er·ies

  1. the business of catching, packing, or selling fish, or lobsters, shrimp, etc.
  2. a place where fish, etc. are caught; fishing ground
  3. the legal right to catch fish in certain waters or at certain times
  4. a place where fish are bred

fishery Synonyms

fishery

n.

fish hatchery, spawning place, fishing banks, fishtrap, weir, fish cannery, aquarium, tank, piscary, processing plant.

fishery Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • regulate: By the end of the project, proposals for regulating the fishery in European Union waters were causing considerable controversy between member states.

Preposition: for

  • herring: A small fishery for herring took place off Tenby and Milford Haven but markets were very limited and easily exhausted.

Adjective modifier

  • inshore: We also campaign for sustainable development, particularly with regard to inshore shell fisheries.
  • demersal: The majority of trawl vessels directly target Nephrops but they are also taken as by catch inthe demersal fishery.
  • coarse: Several local authorities have developed public park lochs as coarse fisheries.
  • pelagic: These are all predominantly for human consumption, although a proportion of the pelagic fisheries are used for fishmeal and fish oil production.
  • deep-water: This is the most specialized deep-water fishery on the deeper parts of the slope to the west of the British Isles.
  • sandeel: The commercial sandeel fishery on the Wee Bankie has been closed since 2000.

Modifies a noun

  • biologist: The protocol was developed by specialist fisheries biologists from around Scotland.
  • by-catch: Today, turtle deaths are also attributed to fisheries by-catch, habitat loss and viral infection.
  • management: On fisheries management, however, part of the scrutiny process is to refer the matter to the Rural Affairs Committee.
  • minister: There is no question of downgrading the job of fisheries minister.
  • owner: Such a change would not of course preclude the rights of a fishery owner to make appropriate local restrictions.
  • statistic: Here we hope to provide links to fisheries resource material such as scientific reports, fisheries statistics, and information materials.

Noun used with modifier

  • freshwater: In a survey in late July, a freshwater fisheries manager captured more than 100 juvenile snakeheads estimated to be about five months old.
  • longline: The longline fishery catches every size fish from little babies of 15 pounds to 600 pounders.
  • herring: The small harbor was built in the nineteenth century for the herring fishery.
  • trout: The venue is a trout fishery which allows access to coarse anglers in the winter months.
  • salmon: We are somewhat confused by the comment that the salmon fisheries can " raise most money for management " .
  • trawl: Other bass fisheries, and other pair trawl fisheries ( both pelagic and demersal ) will be able to continue in this area.
fishery Quotes

Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.

—Defoe, Daniel