fishery
noun/ˈfɪʃəri/
Frequency rank: #10,378 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A place or industry where fish are caught or farmed commercially.
Example sentence
The government introduced new regulations to protect the local fishery from overfishing.
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