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• Fishing in Ohio — Fishing Regional Alabama Alaska Australi …   Wikipedia

• Fishing tackle — Fishing tackle, also called fishing gear, is a general term that refers to the equipment used by fishermen while fishing.Almost any equipment or gear used for fishing can be called fishing tackle. Some examples are lures, bait, lines, rods, reels …   Wikipedia

• fishing — /fish ing/, n. 1. the act of catching fish. 2. the technique, occupation, or diversion of catching fish. 3. a place or facility for catching fish. [1250 1300; ME fisshing. See FISH, ING1] * * * or sport fishing Sport of catching fish freshwater… …   Universalium

• fishing industry —    Two of the main reasons usually cited as favourable to the growth of superstition are dangerous working conditions and the degree on which success/failure is affected by luck rather than skill. Fishing has clearly fulfilled both these criteria …   A Dictionary of English folklore

• Fishing reel — A spinning reel A fishing reel is a cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod used in winding the line .[1] Modern fishing reels usually have fittings which make it easier to retrieve the line and deploy ( cast ) it for better accuracy or… …   Wikipedia

• Fishing industry — Modern Spanish tuna purse seiner in the Seychelles Islands The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products. It is… …   Wikipedia

• fishing —    Spain is a noted venue for fishing enthusiasts. The sport is regulated by the Spanish Fishing Federation, and there are well over a thousand fishing clubs. In 1995, 66,645 licences were issued to men, and 4,251 to women, with the largest… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

• Fishing in Chad — With its two major rivers, Lake Chad, and many runoff zones, in the 1970s Chad ranked high among Africa s producers of inland freshwater fish. With the drought and diversion of the waters of some rivers, however, production declined in the 1980s …   Wikipedia

• fishing capacity — 1) the quantity of fish that can be taken over a period of time (year, season) by a fishing unit, e.g. an individual, community, vessel or fleet, assuming that there is no limitation on the yield from the stock usually expressed as gross tonnage …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• fishing success — catch per unit effort (catch in numbers or weight taken for a given amount of fishing effort expressed as a ratio; the more recent form is catch/effort (C/f). Also called availability) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Marlin fishing — Hemingway with his family and four marlin in 1935 Marlin fishing is considered by some game fishermen to be the pinnacle of offshore game fishing, due to the size and power of marlin and the relative rareness and vulnerability of this species. In …   Wikipedia