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
  • 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
  • And so that leads to collapses and problems in the fisheries.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Graham was from Glace Bay, a rough Cape Breton town of closed mines and struggling fisheries.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The mine would have jeopardized the region’s salmon fishery, which brings thousands of jobs to the area and supplies about half the world’s sockeye salmon, Reynolds said.
    Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Our Yurok Tribal Council also closed our fishery for the year.
    Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In 1950, Congress authorized a new dam at Celilo Falls, the last great fishery, and the most sacred site, for Native tribes on the river.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, thousands of chinook and chum are caught every season in the Bering Sea and Area M fisheries.
    Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
  • Since the start of this year, nine orcas—also known as killer whales—have died in groundfish trawl fisheries in the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The community has deep concerns about the health of king salmon, but the troll fishery targeted in the lawsuit over orcas is the least of them.
    Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • But this fishery is one of Texas’s most famous for its novelty and the monster bass that roam its waters.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • It was outlawed in the same law that forbade dropping rocks and logs on catfish, which tells you what fisheries managers thought of the practice.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Maine has had an elver fishery for decades, but the state’s eels became more valuable in the early 2010s, in part, because foreign sources dried up.
    Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Maine has had an elver fishery for decades, but the state's eels became more valuable in the early 2010s, in part, because foreign sources dried up.
    Patrick Whittle, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • After another bad survey last year, the red king crab fishery closed again and the snow crab fishery closed for the first time ever.
    Joshua A. Bickel, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In the central zone — Cape Falcon to Humbug Mountain — the two-fish daily limit will apply to both the all-depth and nearshore fisheries.
    Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 10 June 2023
  • The fishery itself is a parable of a dictatorship, Karamizade adds.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • This means that whatever forage is predominant in a fishery is likely the thing bass in that area feed on the most.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • The Filipino fishers on wooden boats waved at our vessel, a Philippine fisheries boat, from less than a mile away, but no one on our ship dared to move.
    Camille Elemia, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But lobstermen point out that the technology isn't fully ready to be rolled out at a fishery scale.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Projects in the region include studying the impact of sharks on local fisheries and the behavior of coastal manta rays.
    Julia Chan, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • But the findings were not consistent among all the whales examined, according to a page on the NOAA fisheries website.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • She has been caught a number of times before but only surpassed 60 pounds earlier this year, the fishery wrote.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022

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