as in fisherman
someone who catches fish
few fishers of lake trout are more ardent or adept than my father
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Commercial crab fishers from the Mendocino County line to the Mexican border can drop their gear on Jan. 2, 2025, and start pulling up the first crab pots on Sunday, Jan. 5, the Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday afternoon.
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Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
Similar to Deadliest Catch, the fishers only have a few weeks out of the year and a limited quantity to fish.
—EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Gill nets, native fishers, and commercial boats In Washington state, Native tribes opposed a 2023 gill-net ban proposal that would have negatively impacted several hundred non-native commercial fishers.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
The exact locations of the sites were picked by local fishers, who made the determination based on the location of the tow lanes that access the port, depth conditions, strength of the waves and whether the local community would be supportive, Hales said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
Similar to Deadliest Catch, the fishers only have a few weeks out of the year and a limited quantity to fish.
—EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Gill nets, native fishers, and commercial boats In Washington state, Native tribes opposed a 2023 gill-net ban proposal that would have negatively impacted several hundred non-native commercial fishers.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
The exact locations of the sites were picked by local fishers, who made the determination based on the location of the tow lanes that access the port, depth conditions, strength of the waves and whether the local community would be supportive, Hales said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Fisher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fisher. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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