fishing

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/

Noun

fishing

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.

   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.

2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   This is good news for the fishing industry.

4. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.

   • the rent of the fishings

   • 1917, The Scots Law Times (volume 2, page 190)

     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.

Synonyms

• (act) piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
• (business) fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
• (sport) sportfishing
• (place) See fishery

Translations

• French: pêche
• German: Fischen
• Italian: pesca
• Portuguese: pescaria, pesca
• Russian: рыба́лка
• Spanish: pesca

Translations

• French: pêche
• German: Fischfang
• Portuguese: pesca
• Russian: рыболо́вство
• Spanish: pesca

Verb

1. present participle of fish#English|fish

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