1. A right or liberty of taking fish. • Fishery was an incorporeal hereditament under old English law.
— Also termed piscary. [Cases: Fish 3.]
free fishery. An exclusive right of fishery, existing by grant or prescription from the monarch, to take fish in public water such as a river or an arm of the sea.
— Also termed libera piscaria.
right of fishery. The right of persons to fish in public waters, subject to federal and state restrictions and regulations, such as fishing seasons, licensing, and catch limits.
several fishery. A right to fish in waters that are neither on one’s own land nor on the land of a person who granted the right to fish.
2. A fishing ground.
common fishery. A fishing ground where all persons have a right to take fish. Cf. common of piscary under COMMON.
