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n. The industry or occupation devoted to the catching, processing, or selling of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals.

n. A place where fish or other aquatic animals are caught.

n. A fishing business.

n. A hatchery for fish.

n. The legal right to fish in specified waters or areas.

n. the catching, processing and marketing of fish, shellfish etc

n. a place where fish etc are caught or processed

n. a fishing company

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.

n. The business of catching fish; the fishing industry.

n. In law, a right of fishing in certain waters.

n. A place where fish are regularly caught, or other products of the sea or rivers are taken from the water by fishing, diving, dredging, etc.: as, a salmon-fishery; a pearl-fishery; the fisheries of the coast.

n. The exercise of the right to fish; a fishing venture or season.

n. a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold

"Let me state clearly that the fishery is the backbone of our economy and it will be the foundation on which the economic and social life of Newfoundland will depend for generations to come."

work    workplace   

fishing    bay-fishery    free fishery    pelagic fishery    strand-fishery    coast-fishery    fishery treaties    bureau of fisheries    several fishery    fishery society   

pearl fishery   

fishing    piscary   

agriculture    fisherman    commerce    navigation    herring    roe    wildlife    fish    sardine    Fishers