fisher
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In 2018, riots broke out in Saint-Louis, Senegal, after a fisher was shot and killed by Mauritanian coast guards, during what the Mauritanians said was a cross-border raid by a fishmeal boat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
"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
Ms Townsend studied and attached GPS collars to the Sierra Nevada red fox and the Pacific fisher, which is related to a badger, in attempts to track and preserve the species.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
The most numerous are the fall-run Chinook, which fishers catch along the coast when their numbers are high enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
"Small-scale fishers are unable to feed their families. They're losing their livelihoods," said Maisey Pigeon, of the Coalition for Fisheries Transparency, a Washington-based NGO.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
They were a poor folk, fishers and frog-hunters who lived in houses of thatch and woven reeds on floating islands hidden in the deeps of the swamp.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
