fishing banks

plural noun

1. a relatively shallow area of the sea in which fish are usually abundant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fishing banks¹

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

As recently as 1947, 31 per cent of Grimsby vessels either had no lavatories or unusable ones … And working hours once the fishing banks have been reached are extremely long — 18 hours a day is commonplace.

From Nature

The islands’ greatest natural resource, apart from their fabulously biodiverse coral colonies and fishing banks, may be multi-millennium accumulations of guano.

From The New Yorker

The islands’ greatest natural resource, apart from their fabulously biodiverse coral colonies and fishing banks, may be multi-millennium accumulations of guano.

From The New Yorker

There they would catch double their quota but mark the prawns down in the electronic log as coming from two different fishing banks.

From The Guardian

The Yahgan squaws did not know the joys of taking four-pound trout with a seven-ounce rod, but they had just as much fun as do the New Yorkers who go out to the fishing banks every summer day, and they caught more fish, too.

From Project Gutenberg