An area of sea used for catching fish for food.
the islands are surrounded by rich fishing grounds
Example sentencesExamples
- It's been a prime fishing ground for centuries.
- The water which surrounds the island is a rich fishing ground for tuna and mackerel.
- The Korean Straits is a major fishing ground for the Japanese.
- Local politicians have responded to popular demands to protect the livelihoods of poor coastal fishermen from intrusion in their fishing grounds by large boats.
- Representatives were holding talks with the Commission in an attempt to save cod fishing grounds from total closure next year.
- The Spanish environment minister said oil had contaminated nearly 180 miles of Galicia's scenic coastline, rich in fishing grounds.
- The two terminals are smack bang in the middle of the major shrimp fishing grounds.
- The Brussels meeting will discuss deep-sea species in the fishing grounds off Scotland.
- These fishing vessels, having exhausted their own stocks, are allowed to devastate the fishing grounds around our shores.
- They will be forced to tie up, find new fishing grounds or diversify into prawn fishing.
- It is a rich fishing ground.
- The fishing grounds are part of a single ecosystem.