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seal fishery
Esp. Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the annual hunt for seals at the ice (def. 1).
Quotations
1808
The Seal fishery upon the ice at Newfoundland, has been very fortunate, four vessels engaged in that business, caught no less than 8344, and other have been equally successful.
1819
The stated period for the seal-fishery, so as not to injure the cod-fishery, does not admit of any delay; otherwise the voyage would be lost, and it is this very ice that brings the seals near these coasts.
1928
Preparations for the S.S. Nascopie proceeding to the seal fishery are now well under way. . . .
1947
There she wintered, and the following spring was again engaged in the seal fishery, from which she brought back 32,000 skins.