fishery
/ˈfɪʃ·ə·ri/ n [C/U]Definition
› a place where fish are grown for food, or where they are caught: Officials are concerned about how best to protect the fisheries and water quality in the river. › Fishery is also the activity of growing fish for food, or catching fish to sell: Federal fishery regulators this week set the 2005 catch limit at nearly 3.3 billion pounds.
(Definition of fishery n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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