DCHP-2

fishing camp DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1

  a camp used as headquarters for a fishing party.

  See also: fish camp (def. 1)  

  • 1934  This island is a fishing camp where the trappers come in summer to set nets and get fish for dog feed during the winter.

• 2

  a commercial fishing establishment operating seasonally in a remote area, often equipped with dressing and packing facilities.

  See also: fish camp (def. 2)  

  • 1936  The broken-down debris, as one might call them, of the Pacific Coast mining and fishing camps, such as Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangel and a dozen more, came in over the Skagway trail and Chilcoot Pass.
  • 1958  By the same token, he went on, "the minister of transport could occupy a disused wharf as a fishing camp."

• 3

  an establishment providing accommodation and, usually, boats for sport fishermen.

  See also: fishing lodge  

  • 1955  Kitchen girl twenty or over, for work from May 1st to October 1st at fishing camp on Lake of the Woods at Sioux Narrows, Ontario.
  • 1965  . . . one farmer has turned a bad farm into a good little fishing camp. . . .