| 释义 |
fishery|ˈfɪʃərɪ|
[f. fish v.1 + -ery, or f. fisher1 + -y3.]
1. The business, occupation, or industry of catching fish, or of taking other products of the sea or rivers from the water.
In this and the following senses often preceded by some defining word, as bank-, bay-, coast-, cod-, pearl-, river-, salmon-, sea-, whale-fishery.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 142 We have not one fourth part of Moneys sufficient to drive the Trade of England, and set up the neglected Fishery. 1769Lloyd's Evening Post 22 Sept. 295/2 The British fishery at Iceland has this year turned out but poorly. 1890Pall Mall G. 2 June 2/1 The French fishery upon the coast of Newfoundland, once very large, has fallen away to a mere nothing.
2. A place or district where fish are caught; fishing-ground.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. 124 It is a great Fishery, chiefly for Snooks, which they catch in the Lake. 1792G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1891 XII. 245 The landing by Bishop's house, which used to be, and no doubt still is, good fishery. 1823Byron Juan ix. xxxi, Where God takes sea and land, Fishery and farm, both into his own hand.
3. A fishing establishment; collect. those who are engaged in fishing in a particular place.
1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4713/3 Some English Gallies had destroyed the French Fishery there. 1788T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 539 This produced an outcry of the Dunkirk fishery. 1885E. R. Scidmore Alaska iv. 35 The Kasa-an fishery has distanced its rivals.
4. Law. The right of fishing in certain waters. free fishery, an exclusive right of fishing in public water, derived from royal grant; several fishery, an exclusive right to fish derived from ownership of the soil; common of fishery, the right of fishing in another man's water; common fishery, the right of all to fish in public waters.
1748Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. (1893) II. 167 The fishery of this part of the river belongs to me. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 39 A free fishery, or exclusive right of fishing in a public river, is also a royal franchise..He that has a several fishery must also be the owner of the soil. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius II. 772 A plea, which prescribed for a several fishery in an arm of the sea. 1832Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. (1863) 462 Colonel Talbot..possesses a right of fishery for some mile or two up the river.
5. collect. Fish of different kinds (nonce-use).
1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 491 Martha Glen having been long his constant customer, dealing with him in all sorts of fishery and fruitery.
6. attrib. and Comb., as fishery house, fishery industry, fishery law, etc.; fisheries act, fisheries exhibition; fishery-salt (see quot. 1884).
1528in Archæologia LIII. 380 The fyssherye house at Guisnes. 1864Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept., I have been stationed here as fishery officer. 1865Esquiros Cornwall 132 The fishery women pointed out to me the surface of the bay striped with red. 1868Peard Water-farm. xiii. 128 There were no fishery laws in France. 1883E. R. Lankester Adv. Science (1890) 215 More accurate knowledge of fishery-animals shall be provided. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 74 Fishery Salt. 1884Chesh. Gloss., Fishery Salt, coarse salt made specially for curing fish. 1894Daily News 19 Jan. 5/3 As an outcome of the County Fisheries Exhibition held last year at Truro, the Technical Instruction Committee of the Cornwall County Council..resolved to establish a fisheries school. |