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Definition of Fisheries
1. fishery [n] - See also: fishery
Medical Definition of Fisheries
1. Places for cultivation and harvesting of fish, particularly in sea waters. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fisheries
Literary usage of Fisheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Correspondence relating to the fisheries question, 1885-88. ... Derby (EH) Report
on colonial trade and fisheries in the British provinces, 1869. (US 40. ..."
2. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Efforts of state to Improve and protect inland fisheries. ... Opinion of US comr.
of fish and fisheries on cause of rapid diminution of supply of food ..."
3. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1922)
"Dominant position of New England in American fisheries prior to 1789,. ...
Development of New England fisheries during the seventeenth century, 148. ..."
4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"So if it is advisable to restrict and regulate the fisheries on some parts ...
Such treaties have been concluded—first, with regard to the fisheries in the ..."