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11Fishing industry in Scotland — found fishing to be of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than to the rest of the UK. Scotland has just under 8.6% of the UK population but lands at its ports over 60% of the total UK catch of fishref|Royal.Many of… …
12Fishing industry in New Zealand — Sea floor map around New Zealand. As with other countries, New Zealand’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone gives its fishing industry special fishing rights.[1] It covers 4.1 million square kilometres. This is the sixth largest zone in… …
13Fishing net — A fishing net or fishnet is a net that is used for fishing. Fishing nets are meshes usually formed by knotting a relatively thin thread. Modern nets are usually made of artificial polyamides like nylon, although nets of organic polyamides such as …
14Fishing in India — Fish production has increased more than fivefold since India s independence and is a majory industry, especially in the coastal states. GrowthIt rose from only 800,000 tons in FY 1950 to 4.1 million tons in the early 1990s. Special efforts have… …
15Fishing line — A fishing line is a cord used or made for fishing. Important parameters of a fishing line are its length, material, and weight (thicker, sturdier lines are more visible to fish). Factors that may determine what line an angler chooses for a given… …
16Fishing fleet — A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels. The term may be used of all vessels operating out of a particular port, all vessels engaged in a particular type of fishing (as in the tuna fishing fleet ), or all fishing vessels of… …
17fishing — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. angling, casting, fly fishing, trawling, seining, netting, spearing, harpooning, the piscatorial sport. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. angling, casting, trolling, trawling. That solitary vice. Lord Byron. WORD FIND •… …
18commercial fishing — Introduction the taking of fish and other seafood and resources from oceans, rivers, and lakes for the purpose of marketing them. Fishing is one of the oldest employments of humankind. Ancient heaps of discarded mollusk shells (shell… …
19Marlin fishing — Hemingway with his family and four marlin in 1935 Marlin fishing is considered by some game fishermen to be the pinnacle of offshore game fishing, due to the size and power of marlin and the relative rareness and vulnerability of this species. In …
20History of fishing — Prehistory Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago. [ [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/11/1108 bonetool 2.html African Bone Tools Dispute Key Idea… …
