fishhouse

A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch.

It is in the fishhouse where the fishermen gather in the morning to exchange news about the weather, tides, the price of seafood, about one another and about the people who live in Mullet Springs.

Often they did not know until that morning whether a particular fishhouse had work.

A temporary shelter belonging to an individual fisherman for use while ice fishing.

Those who expect to fish in real winter weather must have a little stove in the fishhouse.

Everyone in town, E. A. Walter, president of the Glei wood State Bank, to the last median at the Soo Line Railroad roundhouse seems to own a fishhouse.

A restaurant that specializes in fish and seafood.

Chesapeake is a California version of an East Coast fishhouse, but more comfortable and sophisticated.

On an island where chefs lean toward Caribbean cuisine, Chef Konrad Jochum presents refreshingly simple, traditional fare (a la some New England fishhouse); his plump oysters Rockefeller and seafood cream-sherry pan roasts are exquisite.

A business that breeds fish for aquariums, selling them either to pet shops or directly to the public.

As does sometimes happen, one particular tank in our fishhouse supported fish and plants better than any other, so the inmates were evacuated and the young Discus introduced.

I have about seven different species in my fishhouse; some of them I am afraid are more suitable for a cooler house than the one they are living in at the moment, but on the whole they are doing well.