fishing

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/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/

noun 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

good, great

We had great fishing last summer when we visited my uncle's lake house.

coarse, deep-sea, drift-net, fly-, sea

My grandfather enjoys going deep-sea fishing whenever he has time off from work.

game, salmon, shark, trout, etc.

My uncle went salmon fishing in Scotland last summer and caught a record-breaking fish.

commercial, industrial

VERB + FISHING

My grandfather took me fishing for the first time last summer.

FISHING + NOUN

basket, equipment, gear, line, rod, stool, tackle | boat, craft, fleet, smack, trawler, vessel | hamlet, harbour, port, station, town, village

area, grounds, spot, zone

My uncle takes his boat out to his favourite fishing spot every Saturday morning.

activity

The government wants to reduce fishing activity in protected marine areas.

quotas

agreement

The fishing agreement between Norway and Iceland allows both nations to share the valuable cod stocks.

ban

rights

The two countries disputed their fishing rights in the disputed waters for years.

licence

My father bought a new fishing licence before we went to the river last summer.

expedition, holiday, trip | club | lodge | business, industry, trade | methods, techniques

PREP

~ for

My grandfather spent every weekend fishing for trout in the mountain stream.

Definitions

noun

The act of catching fish.

We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.

Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

This is good news for the fishing industry.

A fishery, a place for catching fish.

the rent of the fishings

Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of someone who fishes as a diversion

sportfishing

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

fishing expedition

A search for information, especially incriminating information, that is conducted without specific direction or goal, in the hope that something may turn up.

bottom fishing

Fishing with bait, lines, and other gear used to catch aquatic creatures which inhabit the lowest regions of a body of water, including a seabed or riverbed.

gone fishing

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, fishing.

Example Bank

We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.

Wiktionary

This is good news for the fishing industry.

Wiktionary

Fishing is one of the most popular hobbies.

Tatoeba · #19336

Fishing just isn't my line.

Tatoeba · #19337

I prefer staying home to going fishing.

Tatoeba · #19338

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, fishing is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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