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A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
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(idiomatic) an important person
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(idiomatic) One who has achieved a high rank or is highly esteemed, but only in a small, relatively unimportant, or little known location or organization.
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(fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
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Someone who fishes for catfish.
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One who fishes by casting chum into the water to attract the fish.
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Any fish that is not a game fish, and thus historically disdained by recreational anglers.
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A region of relatively shallow seawater where cod are fished for
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One who watches shoals of fish so that they can be caught; a balker.
v
(Britain) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.
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An angler who uses a creel in catching fish.
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One who fishes with a creel.
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A man who fishes with a dredge.
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The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
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A submerged cage for holding live fish until needed.
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The commercial activity of operating fish farms.
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Business that supports and buys from fishermen.
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(aquaculture) Living resources of one or several species of fish in a population or within a specific area.
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(chiefly dated) A female fisher (one who catches fish).
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Any person who attempts to catch fish.
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(colloquial) Failure to catch any fish.
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(countable) A right to fish in a particular location; Territorial fishing waters.
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(slang) A member of a navy; a sailor; a fisherman.
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A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch.
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(countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
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The cultivation of fish as a hobby.
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An environmental event in which fish are killed.
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The fish (e.g. of an area) collectively.
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A market where fish is sold.
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A person who goes fly fishing.
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Any fish used as human food.
v
(commercial fishing) To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
n
(archaic) Fishing; angling.
n
A person who fishes for groundfish
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A fishery that specialises in hagfish
adv
(rare, humorous) In terms of fishing.
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(rare) The art or practice of fishing.
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The act of catching or spearing fish with a leister.
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One who makes a living along the shore by oyster-fishing, etc.
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A fisherman who catches mackerel.
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Alternative form of mackerelling [fishing for mackerel]
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Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
n
(obsolete) fishing; fishery
n
(humorous) A female angler.
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Alternative spelling of pollock [To fish for pollock.]
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Synonym of piscatory ring
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(obsolete) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
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An angler who fishes with a rod.
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Any fish not considered valuable as sport fish nor used as bait or for food.
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(law) Any fish that, when taken, immediately becomes the personal property of the monarch by royal prerogative, as in the United Kingdom and formerly the Kingdom of France.
v
(intransitive) To harvest scallops
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(collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
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A fishery worked by spearfishers
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A fishery that exists for the purpose of sportfishing.
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Alternative form of sportfisherman [A person who participates in sportfishing.]
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(Australia, fishing) A soft plastic lure.
n
The harvesting of toothfish.
adj
(of a lake, a fish species, etc.) Fished less than would still be sustainable; suitable for a greater amount of fishing.
n
One who fishes for whitefish.
n
The industry of fishing for whitefish.
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