How to Use fishery in a Sentence

fishery

noun
  • But more than drought pushed the fishery to the brink.
    — Eric Palkovacs, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • Holding bass the wrong way can hurt the fish and the fishery.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • Locals hoped the episode, a blow to tourism and fisheries, was a one-off.
    — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 11 June 2018
  • Fish eaters are the top of the food web and support a valuable fishery.
    — Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The fight for local fisheries is a topic that’s close to his heart.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2025
  • There are still some anglers engaged in the striped bass fishery.
    — Dan Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
  • No one knows what shrinking salmon size means for the future of this fishery.
    — Miranda Weiss, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the effort to create a year-long fishery may be losing steam.
    — Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
  • If there are grassmats in the fishery, casting a frog is a good tactic.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Bristol Bay is the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2018
  • And so that leads to collapses and problems in the fisheries.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Walczak is well aware of the anger anglers feel over the loss of this unique urban fishery.
    — oregonlive, 11 July 2020
  • The Great Lakes have been known as a world-class salmon fishery ever since.
    — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Trollers are pulling up chinook salmon in a fishery that will close March 15.
    — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The red abalone fishery was closed in 2018 because of the die-off.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • For the Redwood region, jobs in tourism, health, forestry and fisheries.
    — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Still, there is only so much the measures can do to prevent the decline of the fishery.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • The one that causes the most concern among fisheries experts is the blue catfish.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And the fast pace of the trawl fishery has contributed to shorter seasons.
    — Maggie Nelson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That water would dry up with shocking speed; by the ’80s, all the fisheries had shut down.
    — Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • One of the United States’ largest fisheries is hiding in plain sight.
    — Matthew Robertson, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
  • But like many small-scale fisheries around the world, managing them can be difficult.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Using a seine, the Karuk Tribe fisheries team formed a circle and pulled up their catch.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • 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 that’s true of rivers and fisheries, terrestrial wildlife, aquatic wildlife and birds.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025

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