What does fishery mean?
Word: Fishery
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Fishery means a place where fish are caught or bred, or the business of catching and selling fish.
Synonyms: fish farm, fishing ground
How do you spell fishery?
Syllables: fish - er - y
Tricky part: Keep the sh of fish whole, and in the plural the y becomes ies: fisheries.
Watch out for: fishry, fisherie, fisshery
Memory tip: One fishery, many fisheries: the y turns into ies, just as story becomes stories.
Fishery in a sentence
Example 1: The fishery near the harbour sends prawns to markets across the state.
Example 2: Overfishing has emptied many coastal fisheries.
Example 3: We visited a fishery where tiny fish are raised in large tanks.
Fun Fact
Most of India's fish now comes from inland fisheries such as ponds, tanks and rivers rather than from the sea, and India is among the world's largest fish producers.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
fish____
a) ery
b) ary
c) ory
d) erry
Show answer
a) ery. Like bakery and brewery, this place of work takes the same ending.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
hyfresi
a) fishier
b) fryers
c) freshly
d) fishery
Show answer
d) fishery. Freshly has an l and fryers no i, and fishier doubles the i but drops the y; fishery uses all seven.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) maintainance
b) trawlar
c) fishery
d) harbur
Show answer
c) fishery. Maintenance has ten after main, harbour keeps its ou, and trawler ends in er.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Every morning, the fishery near our villege sends baskets of fresh prawns to the town.
a) fishery
b) baskets
c) villege
d) morning
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c) villege. Village ends in age, like cottage and package.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who works at a fishery?
a) a bus conductor
b) someone who nets and sorts fish
c) a school librarian
d) a pilot who flies cargo
Show answer
b) someone who nets and sorts fish
2. Which word names a place where young fish are bred?
a) hatchery
b) aviary
c) granary
d) bakery
Show answer
a) hatchery
