Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the Fisheries Exhibition, London 1883.

1883		‘’Arry at the Royal Evening Fête’ in Punch 28 July 38/1: You’ll ’ave ’eard of the Fisheries, Charlie, the Kensington Show.
1884		Sporting Times 12 Jan. 1/1: ‘And the Fisheries, when you went to London, what did you think of them?’.