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The act of catching fish.uncountable
- We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
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The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.informaluncountable
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Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.uncountable
- This is good news for the fishing industry.
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A fishery, a place for catching fish.countable
- the rent of the fishings
- Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.
syn. piscatology · piscation · piscicide · piscicapture · the gentle craft · fishery · the fish industry · the seafood industry · sportfishing