DCHP-3

fishing post

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Obs.

the buildings, flakes, and stages belonging to a fishery (def. 2).

See: fishery(def. 2)

Quotations

1807
Also . . . The Fishing Posts or Establishments on the said coast, with two vessels, and all the craft, utensils and effects belonging to that Fishery, which shall remain at the close of the present season.
1832
[They] never made any permanent settlement on the island, except trifling fishing posts at two or three places.
2 — Hist.

a northern post where the principal food was fish and where fish were caught for supplying to other posts.

Quotations

1824
. . . no other fisherman could be had none having been provided from the Fishing Posts. . . .
1926
"Huskies," a corruption of the word Esquimaux, are train dogs which are summered in large numbers at fishing-posts in the interior.