fishing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.

noun

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
   Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall. 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
   This is good news for the fishing industry.
4. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
   Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings. 1917, The Scots Law Times, volume 2, page 190

Etymology 2

From fish + -ing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of fish