fisherman
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"Ten years ago, we could go out every single day" and hit catch limits, the sports fisherman and charter boat operator told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
His Ultron avatar sports the long beard of a fisherman shipwrecked by a hard life.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
“God willing, the foreigners will come back soon and we’ll have a better quality of life,” said José Medina, a fisherman with five children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The fisherman and the shark apparently tangled when the man tried to release the fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Occasionally a herd of hippocamps would come and swim alongside the boats, or a mermaid would approach a fisherman, playing a tune on a flute made from a razor clam.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
In Seward, fishermen are not necessarily calling for that extreme.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
This year’s “Super El Niño,” which could become the most powerful on record, has everyone from African farmers to Peruvian fishermen bracing for the worst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Two fishermen discovered the Royal Caribbean employee near Catalina Island on Friday and officials believe he may have been in the Pacific Ocean for nine hours, according to CBS News, the BBC's US news partner.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Commissioners unanimously approved the Point Sal designation, highlighting the opportunity to support tribes even as some acknowledged it would affect fishermen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
In the old days they fished from schooners, big wooden ships with white canvas sails that took the fishermen far offshore to the Grand Banks fishing grounds.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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