How to say "fishery" in Japanese

• 漁業ぎょぎょうJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounThe industry sense: fishery as the business or sector of catching fish taken as a whole. Use it when discussing the fishing industry itself — its scale, its workers, its decline or regulation.
  その島しまには漁業ぎょぎょうを営いとなむ人ひとたちが住すんでいた。↗

  The island was inhabited by a fishing people.
• 漁獲ぎょかくCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbPoints to the catch or haul — the fish actually taken — not the industry. For 'fishery' as the fishing business it is seldom the word you want; it suits talk of catch sizes and hauls.
  我々われわれはこの湾わん内ないで漁獲ぎょかくする特権とっけんを与あたえられた。↗

  We were granted the privilege of fishing in this bay.
• 漁労ぎょろうCommon
  nounRefers to the act or practice of fishing itself, as a subsistence activity alongside hunting and gathering; it does not name the industry, so it is seldom the right choice for 'fishery' in that sense.

Use 漁業 for 'fishery' as an industry or business; 漁獲 is really about the catch or haul, and 漁労 about the act of fishing, so neither usually renders the industry sense.

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• 漁業ぎょぎょうfishing industry
• 漁獲ぎょかくfishery
• 漁労ぎょろうfishing
• 漁区ぎょくfishing ground
• 漁猟ぎょりょうfishing industry