0 past simple and past participle of fish
1 to try to find something, using your fingers to look for it:
She fished in her tool box for the right screwdriver.
The director was fishing for information about our strategy.
He's always fishing for compliments (= trying to make people say good things about him).
2 to catch fish from a river, sea, lake, etc., or to try to do this:
These waters are fished by both artisanal and large-scale vessels, which leads to conflicts.
Fewer recruits would remain from one year to the next to repopulate fished-out areas.
Little boys tended the settlement's herd of cattle, mostly oxen, and the men fished and hunted in and about the forests and on the plains.
Then we - my husband fished besides that, and he was some fisherman!
Conch are being fished beyond capacity for sustainable yield, resulting in a drastic decrease in catch.
In the top flat, an ageing fisherman thrown on the economic scrapheap wondered who was suffering the more painful slide towards extinction - himself, or the cod he once fished.
Gordon (1954) solved for the open-access equilibrium in which all positive rents would be fished away by the continuing entry of fishers into the fishery until that point is reached.
This demand forms part of a concerted effort to break the link between fisheries resources and the fleets which have historically fished them.
