fisherman
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"We've really had enough," protesting fisherman Tony Dalmasso told AFP in Nice.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
But for Grant Trask, a retired commercial fisherman, the run doesn’t make sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“If you’re a windsurfer or fisherman or boater—basically, someone who cares about weather in specific locations—there’ve been good apps out there for a while now,” he said.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
One fifth-generation coracle fisherman described the situation in Carmarthenshire as "dire" after only catching one fish in the three-month season between May and July.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
I thought someone must hear it, someone walking the cliffs late at night, some fisherman from Kerrith away beyond me in the bay, whose boat I could not see.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Catholics believe that in 1717, three fishermen watched in wonder as their nets spilled over with fish after they rescued a wooden statue of Our Lady of Aparecida from the river.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
He says there are hundreds of Ecuadorean fishermen imprisoned in the U.S. and Central America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The shark made a few circles, leaving fishermen on the pier stunned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The bodies of two French fishermen who had been missing since their trawler sank in the English Channel have been found, French prosecutors have said.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Every evening at five o’clock the farmers and the fishermen would close up their stalls, pack their trucks, and go home.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
