Places where fish are caught in large numbers, either from the ocean or from farms, usually for selling as food.
From Middle English and Old French fisherie, derived from fish + -ery (meaning 'place or business of'). The word evolved as commercial fishing became an organized industry.
Modern fisheries use underwater drones and AI to find fish, but they're also discovering that 40% of ocean fisheries have collapsed in the past 50 years because we've been harvesting faster than fish can reproduce!
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