Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FISHING

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Definitions of FISHING

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
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.
4. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
5. inflection of fish

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Examples of Using FISHING in a Sentence

• Originally a small fishing village in the 12th century, Amsterdam became a major world port during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, when the Netherlands was an economic powerhouse.
• The ABDF has responsibility for several different roles: internal security, prevention of drug smuggling, the protection and support of fishing rights, prevention of marine pollution, search and rescue, ceremonial duties, assistance to government programs, provision of relief during natural disasters, assistance in the maintenance of essential services, and support of the police in maintaining law and order.
• Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations under controlled or semi-natural conditions and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.
• A large proportion of Alaska Native populations live in the Bush, often depending on subsistence hunting and fishing.
• Its main industries are agriculture, dairy farming, livestock, fishing, and tourism, which has become a major service activity in the region.
• He also played Senior hockey with the local Foam Lake Flyers of the Fishing Lake Hockey League, winning the league scoring title as a bantam-aged player.
• Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century.
• The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas is an agreement that was designed to solve through international cooperation the problems involved in the conservation of living resources of the high seas, considering that because of the development of modern technology some of these resources are in danger of being overexploited.
• At age seven, he was partially blinded in a fishing accident; due to his reduced sight, Wilson resolved to study entomology.
• It then diversified and now has income from tourism, commercial fishing, and servicing the fishing industry as well as agriculture.
• Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities in French Guiana.
• The economic activity of the Federated States of Micronesia consists primarily of subsistence agriculture and fishing.
• Fair Isle has been occupied since Neolithic times, which is remarkable given the lack of raw materials on the island, although it is surrounded by rich fishing waters.
• Guinea-Bissau is among the world's least developed nations and one of the 10 poorest countries in the world, and depends mainly on agriculture and fishing.
• Today, Hastings, is a popular seaside resort and is still a fishing port with the UK's largest beach-based fishing fleet.
• The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
• In the Jeulmun pottery period (approximately 8000 to 1500 BCE), hunter-gatherer societies engaged in fishing and hunting, and incipient agriculture in the later stages.
• The main employment sectors are fishing, forestry, tourism (a growing industry), and the Russian military.
• Nowadays, the mixed economy of Maldives is based on the principal activities of tourism, fishing and shipping.
• The nation's coastal waters are among the richest fishing areas in the world, but overexploitation by foreigners threatens this key source of revenue.
• Mary's epithet Magdalene may be a toponymic surname, meaning that she came from the town of Magdala, a fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Roman Judea.
• In 2020, Nauru's main sources of income were the sale of fishing rights in Nauru's territorial waters, and revenue from the Regional Processing Centre (an offshore Australian immigration detention facility).
• Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with the sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.
• The Newlyn School was an art colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, on the south coast of Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century.
• It is characterized by extensive use of potatoes, beans, dairy products and seafood, resulting from its historical reliance on its seaports and fishing industry.

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