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Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.

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A place related to fishing, particularly:

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A right to fish in a particular location; Territorial fishing waters.

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A fishing company.

Ihe main fisheries are in Sardinia, Sicily and Elba.

The revolt against fish had ruined the fisheries and driven the fishermen to turn pirates, to the great scandal and detriment of the realm.

The fisheries are important - for herring, mackerel, sprats, cod, salmon, lobsters and anchovies.

The lagoon fisheries are also of great importance, more especially those of Comacchio, the lagoon of Orbetello and the Mare Piccolo at Taranto &c The deep-sea fishing boats in 1902 numbered 1368, with a total tonnage of 16,149; 100 of these were coral-fishing boats and 111 sponge-fishing boats.

Lerwick's main industries are connected with the fisheries, of which it is an important centre.

It also has important fisheries.

The number of boats and smacks engaged in the fisheries has considerably increased.

Lowestoft (Lothu Wistoft, Lowistoft, Loistoft) owes its origin to its fisheries.

Trade is in cider, cattle, butter, flowers and fruit, and there are salmon and other fisheries.

In 1902 the number of men employed in the home fisheries was 144,000 and the number of vessels 25,481 (tonnage 127,000); in the deep-sea fisheries 10,500 men and 450 vessels (tonnage 51,000) were employed.

The fisheries were held by the Incorporated Company of Dredgers (incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1793), the affairs being administered by a foreman, deputy foreman and jury of twelve; but in 1896 an Act of Parliament transferred the management of the fishery to a company.

In 1902 there were 48 tunny fisheries, employjng 3006 men, and 5116 tons of fish worth 80,000 were caught.

The substitution of steamships for sailing vessels has brought about a diminution in the number of vessels belonging to the Italian mercantile marine, whether employed in the coasting trade, the fisheries or in traffic on the high seas.

Light boats and rafts are floated at all points, and steamers ply on its lower portion; its estuary has important fisheries.

Its navigation is of great importance, especially for goods brought from the Volga, and its fisheries are extensive.

The Black Sea fisheries, in which about 4000 men are engaged, yield fish valued at £300,000 per annum.

The annual yield of the Azov Sea fisheries, occupying 15,000 men, is valued at £600,000.

The total value of the Caspian fisheries is estimated at £3,000,000 per annum.

Taking the Lake Aral and Siberian river fisheries into account, it is estimated that altogether the fishing industries yield a revenue to the state of £330,000 annually.'

It abounds in loach, and there are valuable salmon fisheries.

It is navigable only for a few miles above the mouth, but its salmon fisheries are both attractive to sportsmen and of considerable commercial value.

The fisheries are important, principally those for shrimps and lobsters.

The article Fisheries deals with the subject from the economic and commercial point of view, and Angling with the catching of fish as a sport.

The oyster beds, for which Loch Ryan was once noted, are not cultivated, but the fisheries (white fish and herrings) are still of some consequence.

Pine stumps and waste limbs are utilized, notably at Hattiesburg, for the manufacture of charcoal, tar, creosote, turpentine, &c. Fisheries Fishing is a minor industry, confined for the most part to the Mississippi Sound and neighbouring waters and to the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.

The fisheries are chiefly of shad, oysters, mullet, alewives, clams, black bass, menhaden, croakers and bluefish.

The State Geological and Economic Survey has made a careful study of the fishes of North Carolina, of the shad fisheries, of oyster culture, and of the development of terrapin.

At Beaufort the United States Bureau of Fisheries has a marine biological laboratory, established in 1901 for the study of the aquatic fauna of the south-east coast.

It has important fisheries, and manufactures salt, pottery, roofing (made of nipa leaves), and nipa wine.

The fishery then assumes proportions which render it next in importance to the herring and cod fisheries.

This enactment applies to leases of agricultural subjects, houses, mills, fisheries and whatever is fundo annexum; provided that (a) the lease, when for more than one year, must be in writing, (b) it must be definite as to subject, rent (which may consist of money, grain or services, if the reddendum is not illusory) and term of duration, (c) possession must follow on the lease.

Throughout the 14th century references are made to Margate in crown regulations regarding fisheries and shipping.

The waters of the lake swarm with fish (sturgeons and salmonidae), and its herring (Salmo omul) is the chief product of the fisheries, though notably fewer have been taken within the last forty or fifty years.

The fisheries are very valuable; the total number of species of fish in Florida waters is about 600, and many species found on one coast are not found on the other.

The sponge and oyster fisheries are also important.

The total product of the fisheries in 1902 was valued at about $2,000,000.

A large number of the inhabitants are also engaged in the fisheries and as pilots.

The ordnance survey, too, no longer depends on the war office but upon the board of agriculture and fisheries.

The herring, cod, lobster and crab fisheries are prosecuted.

The male inhabitants are mostly employed in the fisheries and the women are the most expert knitters of hosiery in the islands.

Batabano and Caibarien are centres of the sponge fisheries.

Since 1885 great attention has been paid to the sponge fisheries of Tripoli, the annual value of which is about £30,000.

Sanitary taxes, £T20,519, and fisheries and sporting licenses affected to the service of the public debt, £T153,990.

These " six indirect contributions " were the revenues from tobacco, salt, wines and spirits, stamps (commercial), certain specified fisheries, and the silk tithe in specified provinces.

There are also important fisheries for cod, caplin, halibut, red fish (Sebastes) and nepisak (Cyclopterus lumpus); a shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is taken for the oil from its liver; and sea-trout are found in the streams and small lakes of the south.

It might be expected that there should be a decrease in the Greenland seal fisheries, caused by the European and American sealers catching larger quantities every year, especially along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, and so actually diminishing the number of the animals in the Greenland seas.

The average number of seals killed annually is about 33,000.1 The 1 Owing to representations of the Swedish government in 1874 as to the killing of seals at breeding time on the east coast of Greenland, and the consequent loss of young seals left to die of starvation, the Seal Fisheries Act 1875 was passed in England to provide for the establishment of a close time for seal fishery in the seas in question.

The fisheries, which are of great value, are carefully supervised and systematically replenished from the State Fish Hatchery at St Paul, and the Federal Fish Hatchery maintained at Duluth, in which particular attention is devoted to the fish of Lake Superior.

Its work is primarily that of the investigation of the fisheries of northern Europe, but its general methods are oceanographical, and its published results have formed an immense contribution to the science.

It still flows on, however, as a deep current and it then becomes a factor of immense importance with regard to the fisheries in the regions into which it penetrates.