DCHP-3

fishing camp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

a camp used as headquarters for a fishing party.

See: fish camp(def. 1)

Quotations

1934
This island is a fishing camp where the trappers come in summer to set nets and get fish for dog feed during the winter.
2

a commercial fishing establishment operating seasonally in a remote area, often equipped with dressing and packing facilities.

See: fish camp(def. 2)

Quotations

1936
The broken-down debris, as one might call them, of the Pacific Coast mining and fishing camps, such as Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangel and a dozen more, came in over the Skagway trail and Chilcoot Pass.
1958
By the same token, he went on, "the minister of transport could occupy a disused wharf as a fishing camp."
3

an establishment providing accommodation and, usually, boats for sport fishermen.

Quotations

1955
Kitchen girl twenty or over, for work from May 1st to October 1st at fishing camp on Lake of the Woods at Sioux Narrows, Ontario.
1965
. . . one farmer has turned a bad farm into a good little fishing camp. . . .