Fishery
['fɪʃ(ə)rɪ] or ['fɪʃəri]
Definition
(noun.) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold.
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Definition
(n.) The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
(n.) A place for catching fish.
(n.) The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
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Examples
- In 1724, this company had undertaken the whale fishery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The New England fishery, in particular, was, before the late disturbances, one of the most important, perhaps, in the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It has ruined the boat fishery, which is by far the best adapted for the supply of the home market; and the additional bounty of 2s:8d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As no bounty was-paid upon the outfit of the boat-fishery, no account was taken of it by the officers of the customs or salt duties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the price of sea-fish, for example, one part pays the labour of the fisherman, and the other the profits of the capital employed in the fishery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- During these eleven years, the whole number of barrels caught by the herring-buss fishery of Scotland amounted to 378,347. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the year 1759, when the bounty was at fifty shillings the ton, the whole buss fishery of Scotland brought in only four barrels of sea-sticks. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Of the former extent, however, of this now ruined and abandoned fishery, I must acknowledge that I cannot pretend to speak with much precision. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It would appear, therefore, that it is principally foreign salt that is used in the fisheries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those fisheries, upon this account, have had all the encouragement which freedom can give them, and they have flourished accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is otherwise, at least through the greater part of Europe, in river fisheries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The tonnage bounties given to the white herring and whale fisheries may, perhaps, be considered as somewhat of this nature. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Land even replaces, in part at least, the capitals with which fisheries and mines are cultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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