fishery
/ˈfɪʃəɹi/
fishery noun: fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
Noun
fishery (countable and uncountable, plural fisheries)
- Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
- A place where fish or other seafood are caught: a fishing ground (for example, a territorial one).
- the collapse of the fisheries
- While the present conservation of Maryland fisheries is largely concerned with the oyster, which promises such great future returns, the foodfishes should not be neglected.1904, “Report of the Conservation commission of Maryland for 1908-1909”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 3
- A place where fish or other seafood are raised: a fish farm.
- A place where fish or other seafood are processed: a seafood factory.
- A right to fish in a particular location, such as territorial fishing waters.
- Synonyms:
- fishing right, piscary, piscage
- A fishing company.
fishery meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
fishery in Hindi
- fishing
- मत्स्य पालन matsya pālan
fishery in Tamil
- மீன் துறை, மீன் பண்ணை, மீன் வளம், மீன்பிடித் துறை, மீன்வளம், மீன்பிடி தொழில்
fishery in Urdu
- fishery, fishing
- ماہی گیری māhī-gīrī
fishery in Kannada
- ಮೀನುಗಾರಿಕೆ, ಮೀನುಸಾಕಣೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- fishery in Tagalog
- pangisdaan
- fishery in Arabic
- مَصْيَدَة maṣyada
- fishery in Vietnamese
- công nghiệp cá, nghề cá, ngư nghiệp, ngư trường
Examples of fishery in a sentence
- The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
- The president lamented that his nation's fisheries are woefully overexploited, not least because of foreign fishing fleets with no regard for sustainability.
- Some people say that harp seals eat too many cod, but humans are the ones who collapsed the Atlantic cod fishery to begin with.
Synonyms of fishery
- fishing right
- piscary
- piscage
- fishing
- fishing ground
- fishing space
- fish farm
Forms of fishery
| plural | fisheries |
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Origin of fishery
From fish + -ery.
Words formed from fishery
Questions about fishery
- What does fishery mean?
- Fishery means fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
- What is fishery in Hindi?
- Fishery in Hindi is मत्स्य पालन (matsya pālan). See Fishery meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fishery?
- Fishery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fishery?
- Fishery is pronounced /ˈfɪʃəɹi/.
- What is the plural of fishery?
- The plural of fishery is fisheries.
Words near fishery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fishery (page history and authors); fishery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ماہی گیری (Urdu) (page history and authors); fishery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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