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fishery

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fishery
1. 
a. the industry of catching, processing, and selling fish
b. a place where this is carried on
2. a place where fish are reared
3. a fishing ground
4. another word for piscary
fishery [′fish·ə·rē]
(ecology)
A place for harvesting fish or other aquatic life, particularly in sea waters.
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There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
John, a man of generous disposition, as was shown by his extreme liberality to his brother, the famous John Andrea Doria; and what made his death the more sad was that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was now lost, he entrusted himself, and who offered to conduct him in the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
 
 
 
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