0 past simple and past participle of fish --
1 to try to find something, using your fingers to look for it: --
He's always fishing for compliments (= trying to make people say good things about him).
The director was fishing for information about our strategy.
She fished in her tool box for the right screwdriver.
2 to catch fish from a river, sea, lake, etc., or to try to do this: --
It is fished offshore up to half a mile from low-water mark and requires to be made inoperative, as the law demands.
The logbook records when the vessel left port, when it fished, what it caught, when and where it returned to port and various other details.
My grandfather did not even use waders; he fished with his kilt flowing round him in the cold water.
They, too, prevent fishermen from fishing the waters that they and their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fished.
For generations foreign trawlers here come in to our so-called territorial waters and fished them with impunity, while our own trawlers have been excluded.
I have walked, fished, boated, fallen off my first bicycle and motor bicycle there.
For example, small boat fishermen might well see advantage in excluding from grounds they have traditionally fished bigger and more powerful boats based elsewhere.
This demand forms part of a concerted effort to break the link between fisheries resources and the fleets which have historically fished them.
