DCHP-3

dry fishery

Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a method of commercial fishing involving the drying of the catch on flakes.

See: flake

Quotations

1960
There were two methods employed in the fishery. In the "green" or "wet" fishery, the catch was salted directly on board ship; in the "dry" or "shore" fishery, the catch was taken ashore and dried on specially built stagings or "flakes."
1965
Their [New Englanders'] own "dry" fishery . . . became a power in its own right.