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# fishery

noun (a fishery, fisheries)

«fishery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A fishery is a place where fish are caught or bred, like a part of the sea or a fish farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#m1)
2. A fishery is the business or industry of catching fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#m2)

### In the lessons

Geography and environment lessons (overfishing, fishing quotas, sustainable fisheries), and coastal life in Canada, Ireland, Iceland and New Zealand. Phrases: sustainable fishery, cod fishery, fisheries minister.

### Examples

- The cod fishery off Canada closed after overfishing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x1)
- The village depends on the fishery for jobs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x2)
- A trout fishery breeds fish in ponds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x3)
- Sustainable fisheries leave enough fish to breed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x4)
- The government sets rules for fisheries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x5)
- We visited a salmon fishery in Scotland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x6)
- He remained behind, and made himself useful on the farm and at the fishery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x7)

### Note

Plural fisheries. Look for the blue «sustainable» fish label. In maths, quotas are fixed amounts of fish allowed each year.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fishery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fishery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fishery.html) on Mova free.