fishhouse

noun4

1. •
   A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch.

   • It is in the fishhouse where the fishermen gather in the morning to exchange news about the weather, tides, the price of seafood, about one another and about the people who live in Mullet Springs. — 1975
2. •
   A restaurant that specializes in fish and seafood.

   • Chesapeake is a California version of an East Coast fishhouse, but more comfortable and sophisticated. — 2001
3. •
   A temporary shelter belonging to an individual fisherman for use while ice fishing.

   • Those who expect to fish in real winter weather must have a little stove in the fishhouse. — 1919
4. •
   A business that breeds fish for aquariums, selling them either to pet shops or directly to the public.

   • As does sometimes happen, one particular tank in our fishhouse supported fish and plants better than any other, so the inmates were evacuated and the young Discus introduced. — 1956