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From Latin piscarius (“relating to fishes or to fishing”), from piscis (“a fish”).
piscary (countable and uncountable, plural piscaries)
- fishery
- (law) The right or privilege of fishing in somebody else's waters.
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common.