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dry fishery Nfld 
a method of commercial fishing involving the drying of the catch on flakes.
See also: flake
- 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.
- 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."