fisher
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"This suggests Kank may have been an active fisher, contrasting with common portrayal of raptors as agile terrestrial predators, like Velociraptor from the Northern Hemisphere."
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
"It basically just says that a fisher must have an employment contract in writing and that salaries should be paid in intervals, but does not specify the time frame," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
Chilton, who is usually clean-shaven, wears clear rectangular glasses and is a keen trout fisher, founded mushroom distributor Nammex in 1989.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Purchase from vendors and farmers and fisher people that have the same ethos as you do!
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
“So you were a fisher boy by the river, like my grandfather! What made you come here?”
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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In Senegal, fishmeal has put local fishers out of work, so they increasingly are selling — or repurposing — their boats to ferry migrants to Spain’s Canary Islands, a stepping stone to Europe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Officials in the Avannaata municipality on the island nation’s west coast approved the plan, offering fishers 300 Danish kroner, or about $45, per shark heart.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Testing by campaign group Save the River Tywi showed evidence of industrial, agricultural and human waste pollution, with fishers saying they often see dead fish bobbing up and down in the water.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"To date, CMDR's Bounty Project, which pays a financial reward to licensed commercial fishers for marine debris removal, has removed 84 tons of large, derelict fishing gear from the Pacific Ocean."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
Before Kino and Juana and the other fishers had come to Kino’s brush house, the nerves of the town were pulsing and vibrating with the news—Kino had found the Pearl of the World.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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