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FISHERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
Synonyms:
fishery; piscary
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fishery" is a kind of...):
work; workplace (a place where work is done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fishery"):
pearl fishery (a fishery where they fish for pearl oysters)
Derivation:
fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)
Context examples:
Dams block migration routes along the river gradient, which impacts migratory fish - and some, like the catfish, are the most valuable in the fishery sector in the Amazon because they tend to be larger.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
Evidence increasingly suggests that this oceanic current system is slowing down, and some scientists fear it could have major effects, such as causing temperatures to dive in Europe and warming the waters off the eastern coast of the USA, potentially harming fisheries and exacerbating hurricanes.
(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)
According to the study, fisheries catches are expected to fall by more than 50 per cent by the year 2050 for some countries: the Cook Islands, Micronesia, Niue and Tuvalu.
(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)
“Potential fisheries catches will decrease by more than 50 per cent in many regions in the South Pacific,” says William Cheung, associate professor, University of British Columbia.
(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)
