herring-fishery

They are employed in the herring-fishery, and use nets, which are let down in deep water, corks floating the upper edges of the nets, and the lower edges being sunk by leads, so that they remain in the water perpendicularly like walls, and intercept the shoals of herring when they chance to pass.

Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859

-- In the early part of this week, a number of the boats here have left for the herring-fishery at Kinsale, in Ireland.

Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

Being in a convent in Artois, his superior sent him to Calais, at the season of the herring-fishery, to beg alms, after the practice of the

France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Francis Parkman 1858

Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;

The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

-- Garveloch being a place where there was a large herring-fishery, but where, as we are told by the author, "the people increased much faster than the produce."

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

"Sir -- I wrote a letter, three weeks ago, to Lord Oldborough, on the herring-fishery, to which I have not had the honour of an answer."

Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808

The nets used in the herring-fishery can furnish work but for few, and not many can be employed as labourers at the foundation of the new bridge.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

[A small sea-vessel used in the Dutch herring-fishery.] and advising about the effects of this encouragement, which will be a very great matter certainly.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

[A small sea-vessel used in the Dutch herring-fishery.] and advising about the effects of this encouragement, which will be a very great matter certainly.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 19: November/December 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668