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
He’d seen a fisher hang up and sink on the old struts when it had run itself into the whole mass of towers and then been unable to win free.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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
Mark Taylor, CEO of the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority North West, told the BBC: "The incident led to a delay in the fishers being able to derive an income from the bed".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The remains were uncovered in Stora Förvar cave, an archaeological site on Stora Karlsö that was heavily used by seal hunters and fishers during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 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
