The season chosen for the pearl fishery, which gives employment to large numbers of the natives, is naturally when the sea is most calm, that is, between the termination of the northeast and the commencement of the southwest monsoons.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
I can get you a berth in my ship, if you're willin' to take a trip to the whale-fishery of the South Seas.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne
I remember hearing our first mate tell of a wonderful escape a comrade of his had in the Greenland Sea fishery.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne