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A fisherman is someone who gathers fish, shellfish, or other animals from a body of water.[1] Although it usually addresses people who fish as a profession or means of subsistence, it can also be used to identify sport fishermen or "anglers". It may be used to describe both men and women. Fishermen in the harbor of Kochi, India. ...
Salmon for sale at a marketplace The Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ...
Subsistence fishing in Bangladesh. ...
Fishing from a Pier Fishing is both the recreation and sport of catching fish (for food or as a trophy), and the commercial fishing industry of catching or harvesting seafood (either fish or other aquatic life-forms, such as shellfish). ...
Fishing tackle refers to the equipment and gear used when engaing in the pursuit of fish for sport and commercial value. ...
A fishing vessel is any ship used to catch fish on seas, lakes or rivers. ...
A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...
Fisherman, Long Island, NY, 1983, by Rick Dikeman File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Fisherman, Long Island, NY, 1983, by Rick Dikeman File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
This article is about the island in New York State. ...
For other uses, see Fish (disambiguation). ...
Cooked mussels Shellfish is a term used to describe shelled molluscs and crustaceans used as food. ...
A profession is an occupation, vocation or career where specialized knowledge of a subject, field, or science is applied. ...
The following is a list of subsistence techniques: Hunting and Gathering, also known as Foraging freeganism involves gathering of discarded food in the context of an urban environment gleaning involves the gathering of food that traditional farmers have left behind in their fields Cultivation Horticulture - plant cultivation, based on the...
Sport fishing is a popular attraction in Cabo San Lucas Sport fishing is a term (often used interchangeably with game fishing) that describes recreational fishing where the primary reward is the challenge of finding and catching the fish rather than the culinary or financial value of the fishs flesh. ...
Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.[2] For some communities, fishing provides not only a source of food and work but also community and cultural identity.[3] The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the Middle Stone Age[1]) was a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age. ...
For other uses, see Community (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ...
Occupation summary Although "fisherman" is a broad occupational category, the concept of harvesting fish or shellfish is the deepest similarity. Terms such as crabbing, lobstering, and trawling have emerged to differentiate methods of fisherman obtaining their catch. Terminology is the study of terms and their use â of words and compound words that are used in specific contexts. ...
The term crab can refer to any of the following: True crabs, of the infraorder Brachyura Hermit crabs, superfamily Paguroidea King crabs, family Lithodidae Porcelain crabs, family Porcellanidae The horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus Crab lice, or pubic lice, known colloquially as crabs Edible crab, Cancer pagurus Crab apple A misapplied...
A traditional Maine lobster boat, used to haul and maintain the lobster traps. ...
For fishing by dragging a baited line after a boat, see troll (angling). ...
"Angler" can be a unisex term for someone who practices "angling", which is essentially fishing with a hook. Commonly, this involves a rod, reel and line. Today it's usually practiced for pleasure. Angling. ...
Angling. ...
History -
By the time of the Ancient Egyptians, fishermen provided the majority of food for Egyptians. Fishing had become a major means of survival as well as a business venture.[4] Fishing and the fisherman had also influenced Ancient Egyptian religion; mullets were worshiped as a sign of the arriving flood season.[4] Bastet was often manifested in the form of a catfish.[4] The method Amun, in ancient Egyptian literature, created the world, is associated with the Tilapia's method of mouth-brooding. The pyramids are the most recognizable symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt. ...
Egyptian goddess Isis protecting a mummified pharaoh, a late Ptolemic relief from the Philae Temple, which was first built in the thirtieth dynasty, c. ...
Genera Agonostomus Aldrichetta Cestraeus Cahaenomugil Chelon Crenimugil Joturus Liza Moolgarda Mugil Myxus Neomyxus Oedalechilus Rhinomugil Sicamugil Valaomugil Xenomugil The mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water also. ...
Flooding near Key West, Florida, United States from Hurricane Wilmas storm surge in October 2005 For other uses, see Flood (disambiguation). ...
In Egyptian mythology, Bastet was a solar deity and a goddess of fertility and protector of pregnant women. ...
Manifestation refers to a concept of either recurring or transitive phenomena, as instances which become manifest or realised. ...
This article is about the siluriform catfishes; for the Atlantic catfish, see Seawolf (fish); for other uses, see Catfish (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Amun (disambiguation). ...
Egyptian goddess Isis protecting a mummified pharaoh, a late Ptolemic relief from the Philae Temple, which was first built in the thirtieth dynasty, c. ...
Genera Oreochromis (about 30 species) Sarotherodon (over 10 species) Tilapia (about 40 species) and see text Tilapia (pronounced ) is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fishes from the tilapiine cichlid tribe. ...
See also Fishermen in the harbor of Kochi, India. ...
Sport fishing is a popular attraction in Cabo San Lucas Sport fishing is a term (often used interchangeably with game fishing) that describes recreational fishing where the primary reward is the challenge of finding and catching the fish rather than the culinary or financial value of the fishs flesh. ...
Workers harvest catfish from the Delta Pride Catfish farms in Mississippi Aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic organisms. ...
A demonstration aquaculture facility Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture. ...
Images A fisherman in Japan Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
| A fisherman in central Chile Fisherman in central coast of Chile, 2004, by Cantus. ...
| An Indian fisherman in Chennai Madras redirects here. ...
| References | Fishing industry | | Fishing industry | Fishing industry - Fisherman - Fishing techniques - History of fishing Salmon for sale at a marketplace The Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ...
Salmon for sale at a marketplace The Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ...
| | Trawling | Trawling - Commercial trawler - Bottom trawling - Midwater trawling - Pair trawling For fishing by dragging a baited line after a boat, see troll (angling). ...
The Celtic Explorer, a research vessel engaged in bottom trawling Bottom trawling (known in the scientific community as Benthic trawling) is a fishing method which involves towing trawl nets along the sea floor, as opposed to pelagic trawling, where a net is towed higher in the water column. ...
// Trawling Double-rigged shrimp trawler hauling in the nets Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. ...
| | Lines, nets and traps | Long-line fishing - Dropline - Fishing net - Gillnet - Drift net - Drifter - Seine - Surrounding net - Chinese nets - Glass float - Ghost net - Fish trap - Fish wheel - Fishing weir - Turtle excluder device - Corf Long-line fishing is a commercial fishing technique that uses hundreds or even thousands of baited hooks hanging from a single line. ...
The desktop where the word processor and the spreadsheets are running. ...
Fishing with a cast net. ...
Oil painting of gillnetting, The salmon fisher by Eilif Peterssen. ...
Drift nets are nets used in oceans. ...
A drifter is a type of fishing boat. ...
Fishermen catching salmon on the Columbia River using a seine. ...
Kochi fishing net Cheena vala (Chinese fishing net), Kochi Raising the net The Chinese fishing nets (Cheena vala) of Kochi (formerly known as Cochin), a city in Kerala, south India are fixed land installations for an unusual form of fishing. ...
Small glass float from southern tip of Taiwan Glass floats, glass fishing floats, or Japanese glass fishing floats are popular collectorsâ items. ...
Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been lost by fishermen. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Fishing. ...
Fishing Weir- a piece of early technology used by North American Natives and early settlers to catch fish for trade and to feed their communities. ...
A turtle excluder device. ...
| | Commercial fish | Fish - Food chain - Anchovy - Carp - Catfish - Cod - Atlantic cod - Eel - Flounder - Haddock - Halibut - Herring - Mackerel - Mahi-mahi - Mullet - Orange roughy - Salmon - Sardine - Tuna - Whitefish - Fish (food) - Seafood Watch - Shark fin soup - Portal:Marine life For other uses, see Fish (disambiguation). ...
Food chains, food webs and/or food networks describe the feeding relationships between species to another within an ecosystem. ...
Genera Amazonsprattus Anchoa Anchovia Anchoviella Cetengraulis Coilia Encrasicholina Engraulis Jurengraulis Lycengraulis Lycothrissa Papuengraulis Pterengraulis Setipinna Stolephorus Thryssa The anchovies are a family (Engraulidae) of small, common salt-water fish. ...
{{Otheruses Carp: Committee supporting Petanacs reconstruction in Huehuetenago, Guatemala} see http://carp. ...
This article is about the siluriform catfishes; for the Atlantic catfish, see Seawolf (fish); for other uses, see Catfish (disambiguation). ...
COD may refer to many different topics, including: Cash on delivery Completion of discharge, shipping College of DuPage, a public Junior College with campuses in the suburbs of Chicago Call of Duty (series), a series of computer games Canadian Oxford Dictionary Carrier onboard delivery Catastrophic optical damage, a failure mode...
Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, is a well-known food fish belonging to the family Gadidae. ...
For other uses, see Eel (disambiguation). ...
Flounder or flukes are flatfish that live in ocean waters ie. ...
For other uses, see Haddock (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the flatfish species; for the United States Navy ships named Halibut see USS Halibut. ...
Species Clupea alba Clupea bentincki Clupea caspiopontica Clupea chrysotaenia Clupea elongata Clupea halec Clupea harengus Clupea inermis Clupea leachii Clupea lineolata Clupea minima Clupea mirabilis Clupea pallasii Clupea sardinacaroli Clupea sulcata Herrings are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic...
Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae. ...
Binomial name Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 The Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), also known as dolphin fish or dorado, are a species of surface-dwelling fish found in tropical and subtropical waters. ...
Genera Agonostomus Aldrichetta Cestraeus Cahaenomugil Chelon Crenimugil Joturus Liza Moolgarda Mugil Myxus Neomyxus Oedalechilus Rhinomugil Sicamugil Valaomugil Xenomugil The mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water also. ...
Binomial name Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett, 1889 The orange roughy, red roughy, or deep sea perch[2][3] Hoplostethus atlanticus, is a relatively large deep-sea fish belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae). ...
For other uses, see Salmon (disambiguation). ...
Sardines in the Pacific An open Sardines can Sardines on a plate grilled Sardines For the hide and seek-like game, see Hide and seek. ...
For other uses, see Tuna (disambiguation). ...
Whitefish (white fish, demersal fish) is a fisheries term referring to several species of oceanic deep water finfish, particularly cod (Gadus morhua), whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), but also hake (Urophycis), pollock (Pollachius), or others. ...
Fish served with vegetables and herbs. ...
Seafood Watch is a program designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources. ...
Shark fin soup (or sharks fin soup) is a Cantonese cuisine delicacy commonly served as part of a Chinese feast, usually at special occasions such as weddings and banquets as a symbol of wealth and prestige. ...
| | Crustaceans and molluscs | Abalone - Alaskan king crab fishing - Crab - Clam digging - Freshwater prawn farm - Krill fishery - Lobster fishing - Lobster trap - Mussel - Oyster - Scallop - Shrimp fishery - Shrimp farm - Squid - Trepanging Species Many, see species section. ...
A woman holding a red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Alaskan king crab fishing is carried out during the winter months in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. ...
For other uses, see Crab (disambiguation). ...
Clam digging is a common means by which to harvest clams from below the surface of the tidal mud flats where they live. ...
A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawn or shrimp1 for human consumption. ...
Krill fishery is the commercial fishery of krill, small shrimp-like marine animals that live in the oceans world-wide. ...
A traditional Maine lobster boat, used to haul and maintain the lobster traps. ...
A lobster trap (British English: lobster pot) is an effective way for fishermen to catch many lobsters at once when lobster fishing. ...
Subclasses Pteriomorpha (marine mussels) Palaeoheterodonta (freshwater mussels) Heterodonta (zebra mussels) The common name mussel is used for members of several different families of clams or bivalve molluscs, from both saltwater and freshwater habitats. ...
For other uses, see Oyster (disambiguation). ...
Genera See text. ...
Pandalus borealis is a popular food source. ...
Shrimp growout pond on a farm in South Korea. ...
For other uses, see Squid (disambiguation). ...
Trepanging is the collection or harvesting of sea cucumbers, also called trepang. One who does this activity is called a trepanger. ...
| | Other types of fishing | Fish aggregating device - Light attractor - Payaos - Troll (angling) - Seal hunting - Cormorant fishing - Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River - Portuguese water dogs - Pearl hunting - Ice fishing - Cyanide fishing - Electrofishing - Blast fishing - Flosser A fish aggregating (or aggregation) device (FAD) is a man-made object used to attract ocean going pelagic fish such as marlin, tuna and mahi-mahi (dolphin fish). ...
A fishing light attractor is an underwater light that can be used to attract fish of many species, including baitfish, and larger fish. ...
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Genera Nannopterum Phalacrocorax Leucocarbo The Phalacrocoracidae family of birds is represented by about thirty species of cormorants and shags. ...
Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River ) has played a vital role in the history of Gifu City, Gifu, Japan. ...
Portuguese Water Dogs are a dog breed bred by the Portuguese at least 500 years ago to help with fishing. ...
Pearl diver in Japan Pearl hunting or pearl diving refers to a now largely obsolete method of retrieving pearls from oysters and, on rare occasions, other nacre-producing creatures, such as abalone. ...
Ice fishing in the Finnish Miljoonapilkki fishing competition. ...
Cyanide fishing is an illegal form of fishing common in South East Asia, which usually uses the chemical compound sodium cyanide - a close relation of potassium cyanide. ...
Blast fishing or dynamite fishing describes the practice of using dynamite, homemade bombs or other explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. ...
A Flosser is an angler who uses the method of flossing to catch fish mainly from the Salmon species. ...
| | Fisheries and fish farms | Fishery - Coral reef - Common Fisheries Policy - National Fish Hatchery System - Fish hatcheries of the US A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...
Some of the biodiversity of a coral reef, in this case the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. ...
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the fisheries policy of the European Union. ...
The National Fish Hatchery System was established by the U.S. Congress in 1871 through the creation of a U.S. Commissioner for Fish and Fisheries. ...
| | Quotas and monitoring | Catch reporting - Individual fishing quota - Individual Transferable Quota - Monitoring control and surveillance - Vessel monitoring system - Minimum landing size - Discards - Incidental mortality - By-catch - Cetacean bycatch - Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing - Exclusive Economic Zone Individual fishing quotas (popularly abbreviated to IFQ) are a means by which many governments have tried to regulate fishing. ...
Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS), in the context of fisheries, is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as a broadening of traditional enforcing national rules over fishing, to the support of the hroader problem of fisheries management[1]. Internationally, the basis of law for...
Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) are used in commercial fishing to allow environmental and fisheries regulatory organizations to monitor, minimally, the position, time at a position, and course and speed of fishing vessels. ...
In fisheries science, by-catch refers to species caught in a fishery intended to target another species, as well as reproductively-immature juveniles of the target species. ...
Cetacean bycatch is the technical term for the incidental capture of non-target cetacean species by fisheries. ...
Sea areas in international rights Under the law of the sea, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a seazone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. ...
| | Sustainability | Overfishing - Fishing capacity - Sustainable yield - Unsustainable fishing methods - Tragedy of the commons - The End of the Line The Traffic Light colour convention, showing the concept of Harvest Control Rule (HCR), specifying when a rebuilding plan is mandatory in terms of precautionary and limit reference points for spawning biomass and fishing mortality rate. ...
Fishing Capacity is a problem in fisheries management. ...
The sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, i. ...
Unsustainable fishing methods are ways of catching wild fish that are not considered sustainable in the long term. ...
The Tragedy of the Commons is a type of social trap, often economic, that involves a conflict over resources between individual interests and the common good. ...
| | Fish processing | Fish processing - Fish processing facility - Fish processing vessel - Fish preservation - Slurry ice - Stockfish - Fish flake Egyptians bringing in fish, and splitting for salting In fishing industry, fish processing or fish products industry refers to processing fish delivered by fisheries, which are the supplier of the fish products industry. ...
A fish processing vessel or fish factory ship is a vessel primarily intended for fish processing. ...
Slurry ice with propylene glycol as depressant viewed through a Microscope . ...
Stockfish is air-dried cod. ...
This article is about the structures used for drying cod; for the flaked foods given to aquarium fish, see fish food. ...
| | Product sales and markets | Fish product sales - Live food fish trade - Shrimp marketing - Fish market - Billingsgate Fish Market - Busan Cooperative Fish Market - Feskekôrka - Fulton Fish Market - Maine Avenue Fish Market - Princes Street Market (Cork) - Russ & Daughters - Scania Market - Sydney Fish Market - Tsukiji fish market This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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Retail fish market: Chinatown, Sydney. ...
Situated now in East London, Billingsgate Fish Market is the United Kingdoms largest inland fish market. ...
The Busan Cooperative Fish Market, or BCFM, is the largest fish market in South Korea. ...
The Fish Church in Gothenburg Feskekôrka (The Fish Church) is an indoor fish market in Gothenburg, Sweden, which got its name from the buildings resemblance to a Gothic church. ...
The Markets Interior The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in New York, United States. ...
Fresh seafood laid out on one of several floating barge vendors. ...
Russ & Daughters is a well known fish market opened in 1914. ...
The annual Scania Market for herring was a major event in the Hanseatic world around the Baltic Sea, and the cornerstone of the Hanseatic Leagues wealth. ...
Sydney Fish Market The Sydney Fish Market is a commercial enterprise in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
Tsukiji as seen from Shiodome End of the fresh tuna auction at Tsukiji. ...
| | Fishery stewardship | | | Other organisations | | | Regional fishing | Commercial fishing in Alaska - Fishing industry in Scotland - Scottish Fisheries Museum - Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center - Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project - Agulhas Bank - Dogger Bank - Flemish Cap - Georges Bank - Grand Bank Scottish fishing boats moored in Fraserburgh. ...
Aerial view of the museum complex, with the twin masted Reaper seen moored in the harbour to the left. ...
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is an autonomous intergovernmental body established as a regional treaty organization in 1967 to promote fisheries development in Southeast Asia. ...
The Agulhas Bank is known as the best fishing ground in South Africa. ...
Location of the Dogger Bank Dogger Bank (from dogge, an old Dutch word for fishing boat) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 km off the coast of the United Kingdom. ...
Map showing the Flemish Cap at far right The Flemish Cap is an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic Ocean centered roughly at 47° north, 45° west or about 350 miles (560 km) east of St. ...
Georges Bank is a large elevated area of the sea floor which separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean and is situated between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. ...
| | Fishing vessels | | | Communities | Koli culture - Mogaveeras - Vikings Mogaveeras(also written as Mogavira) are the major fishing community in coastal Karnataka, India. ...
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| | History | Chasse-marée - Cod Wars - Munster pilchard fishery 1570-1750 - Migratory Fishery of Labrador - Oyster Injustice - 1959 Escuminac Hurricane - Eyemouth disaster - Moray Firth fishing disaster - Scottish east coast fishery - Stotfield fishing disaster - Harold Innis and the cod fishery - Allan McLean The fundamental meaning of un chasse-marée was a wholesale fishmonger, originally on the Channel coast of France and later, on the Atlantic coast as well. ...
The Cod Wars (also called the Iceland Cod Wars) were a series of confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland over Icelands claims of authority over tracts of ocean off their coastline as being their exclusive fishery zone. ...
The Oyster Injustice of 1834-1835 was the result of an unusually poor oyster season in the Chesapeake Bay fishery and President Andrew Jacksons withdrawing of federal funding from the national bank. ...
The Escuminac Hurricane (or Escuminac Disaster) is the name given for a rare June hurricane which struck Canadas Gulf of St. ...
Crew of the Ariel Gazelle, which survived the storm The Eyemouth Disaster was a severe European windstorm that struck the southern coast of Scotland, specifically Berwickshire, on October 14, 1881. ...
The Scottish east coast fishery has been in existence for more than a thousand years, spanning the Viking period right up to the present day. ...
The Stotfield fishing disaster was the first of several fishing disasters of the 19th century on the east coast of Scotland. ...
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| | Recreational fishing | Fishing industry | Whaling | Sustainability and research | Fishing from a Pier Fishing is both the recreation and sport of catching fish (for food or as a trophy), and the commercial fishing industry of catching or harvesting seafood (either fish or other aquatic life-forms, such as shellfish). ...
Salmon for sale at a marketplace The Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ...
The crew of the oceanographic research vessel Princesse Alice, of Albert Grimaldi (later Prince Albert I of Monaco) pose while flensing a catch. ...
Subsistence fishing in Bangladesh. ...
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