WordNet
n. the season during which it is legal to catch fish
Usage examples of "fishing season".
Towards spring, however, the fishing season commenced - the season of plenty on the Columbia.
When autumn finally rolled around and the fishing season more or less ended, Celane went back to making barrels and attending to various other domestic duties.
Yet they were really dependent to a large extent upon the sales which the store made during the fishing season.
The only thing that varies is the price -- which ranges from five and sometimes ten dollars a pound at Christmas, down to twenty cents a pound at the peak of the sport-fishing season, which runs from May to September on the Kona Coast and yields between five and ten thousand pounds of sushimi for the market every day.
Many of Termalaine's fishermen, fearing the economic advantage that Targos would gain over them, had refused to give up the most lucrative month of the fishing season.
Few Indians were to be seen along the banks of the river, but occasionally the party came to a pile of planks and timbers which were the materials from which were built the houses of such Indians as came here in the fishing season to catch a supply for the winter and for trading purposes.