How to Use fishery in a Sentence

fishery

noun
  • Holding bass the wrong way can hurt the fish and the fishery.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • The essentials of the gill net fishery haven’t changed all that much over the decades.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The state’s salmon fishery was on the verge of being wiped out during the last drought stage.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Join the boats bobbing in the blue water and cast a line in one of the finest bass fisheries in Ontario.
    Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Great Lakes have been known as a world-class salmon fishery ever since.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Take these tips out to your local fishery and unlock the jaws of the post-spawn bass in your area.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 1 May 2024
  • And so that leads to collapses and problems in the fisheries.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • At the top of the agenda is Lake Erie’s problem fishery, the yellow perch.
    cleveland, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year’s take.
    Joshua A. Bickel, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In fisheries, the effects of this could be far-reaching.
    Meredith Moore, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
  • Trollers are pulling up chinook salmon in a fishery that will close March 15.
    Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Using a seine, the Karuk Tribe fisheries team formed a circle and pulled up their catch.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • And fishing has largely ceased in Rybinsk, the city once known as the fishery of the tsar.
    Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And the fast pace of the trawl fishery has contributed to shorter seasons.
    Maggie Nelson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • No one knows what shrinking salmon size means for the future of this fishery.
    Miranda Weiss, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • To put this in context, Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon is the largest wild salmon fishery in the world.
    Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • There are still some anglers engaged in the striped bass fishery.
    Dan Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The new film focuses on the health of the oceans and the effects of industrial fisheries.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This means that the fish oil used to make the supplement has been sourced from a sustainable fishery.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The one that causes the most concern among fisheries experts is the blue catfish.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And the people who hoist the traps take pride in crafting their own stringent measures to protect the fishery.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2022
  • Once home to a massive tuna boat fleet, the fishery collapsed.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In 1954, the state opened a recreational fishery for white sturgeon.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Alaska’s pollock fishery used to take in a lot of salmon bycatch.
    Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Graham was from Glace Bay, a rough Cape Breton town of closed mines and struggling fisheries.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In Maine, the timing of the lobster fishery was upended during a heat wave in 2012.
    Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Under a 1976 law, the owners of some kinds of fishing boats are required to pay the salaries of fishery monitors.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This would have dire implications for ocean health, subsistence fisheries and tourism.
    Reuters, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In Alaska, the fisheries are shutting down because species are just disappearing.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024

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