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# fishery

«fishery» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place where fish are caught or bred, like a part of the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fishery, fisheries)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) A fishery is the business or industry of catching fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x1)
- The village depends on the fishery for jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x2)
- A trout fishery breeds fish in ponds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x3)
- Sustainable fisheries leave enough fish to breed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x4)
- The government sets rules for fisheries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/#x5)
- We visited a salmon fishery in Scotland. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [A blue fish label on packets shows fish from a fishery checked as well managed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fishery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fishery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.