1792  (1923)  We soon after rounded out a deep Bay, on the West side of which we saw a great number of fish stages erected from the ground in a slanting manner, for the purpose of exposing the fish fastened to them to the most advantageous aspect for, drying.
1818  We also perceived great quantities of stinking fish and bones lying scattered about their wigwams; together with canoes, and large fish-stages.
1939  The frozen white-fish . . . hung on fish-stages, high platforms made out of reach of the dogs
2Nfld a waterside shed for gutting, heading, and salting fish to be dried on flakes.
1910  (1947)  Half-way to the fish stage . . . Jimmie Grimm came to a startled full stop.
1963  . . . past the crazy legs of the wharves and fish stages and a clutch of tidy salt-box houses, fading finally into the bare and brooding hills.