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The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison.

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.

A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery. The Dutch whalers and herring busses. Macaulay.

A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.

A fishery. Spenser.

Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. Burrill.

ed for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

Fishing; fishery. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

on the carcasses of whales. [Canada] -- Whale fin (Com.), whalebone. Simmonds. -- Whale fishery, the fishing for, or occupation of taking, whales. -- Whale louse (Zoöl.), any one of several species of degraded amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus Cyamus, especially C. ceti. They are parasitic on various cetac…

A man employed in the whale fishery.

A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.