fisher

Example Sentences

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Once the season opens, catch rates quickly plummet, so fishers strive to keep working even as the ocean turns rough.

From Seattle Times

It’s legal to catch alligator snapping turtles only in Louisiana, where recreational fishers are allowed one a day, and Mississippi, which limits recreational take to one per year, the federal agency said.

From Seattle Times

A 2008 impact assessment commissioned by Vietnam Electricity estimated the dam would shrink the annual incomes of 300,000 fishers and farmers living near the river by millions of dollars.

From Science Magazine

Called to be a “fisher of men,” Tonkin said, he became the affiliate of a Free Will Baptist missionary group targeting the valley’s unreached.

From Washington Post

The number of lawsuits piling up “may be a significant driver” of a potential bankruptcy, said Lexi Hazam, a San Francisco lawyer representing a group of plaintiffs that includes commercial fishers and a whale-watching company.

From Los Angeles Times