Fishing Definition–noun | 1. | the act of catching fish. | | 2. | the technique, occupation, or diversion of catching fish. | | 3. | a place or facility for catching fish. | |
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the sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater, typically with rod, line, and hook. Like hunting, fishing originated as a means of providing food for survival. Fishing as a sport, however, is of ...
fishing cat
(species Felis viverrina), tropical cat of the family Felidae, found in India and Southeast Asia. The coat of the fishing cat is pale gray to deep brownish gray and marked with dark spots and ...
fly-fishing
method of angling employing a long rod, typically 7 to 11 feet (2 to 3.5 metres) in length, constructed of carbon fibre, fibreglass, or bamboo, and a simple arbor reel holding a heavy line joined to ...
commercial fishing
the taking of fish and other seafood and resources from oceans, rivers, and lakes for the purpose of marketing them.fish owl
any of several species of owls of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes). They live near water and eat fish as well as small mammals and birds. The several Asian species are of the genus Ketupa; ...
Kwangsi
Fishing is extensive. Both inshore and deep-sea fishing are carried on in the Gulf of Tonkin, which contains some of the world's richest fishing grounds. Catches include croaker (a fish that makes a ...
Spain
With about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of coastline, Spain has long had an important fishing industry, which relies on fishing grounds off its coast and as far away as the Pacific and Indian oceans. The ...
India
Fishing is practiced along the entire length of India's coastline and on virtually all of its many rivers. Production from marine and freshwater fisheries has become roughly equivalent. Because few ...
Germany
Fishing in western Germany began to decline markedly from the 1970s because of overutilization of traditional fishing grounds and the extension of the exclusive economic zone to 200 miles (320 km) ...
Canada
Canada has rich fishing grounds off both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. The parts of the continental shelf with the shallowest water are known as fishing banks; there plankton, on which fish ...
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