fishing

Also known as angling

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (freshwater or marine), but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include trawling, longlining, jigging, hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting and poisoning.

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Fishing is the activity of catching fish, which people do in natural bodies of water like rivers and oceans as well as in man-made or stocked locations such as ponds and reservoirs. People use many different techniques to fish, ranging from common methods like angling and netting to more destructive approaches that are often illegal, such as electrocution and poisoning.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: hobby
Subclass of: hunting
Location: fishing ground
Image: 00 3626 Carrelet (pêche au) - Frankreich.jpg

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Commons category: Fishing
topic's main category: Category:Fishing
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Fishing
Commons gallery: Fishing
Unicode character: 🎣
OpenStreetMap tag: leisure=fishing
practiced by: fisher
different from: commercial fishing
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has goal: fish
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Encyclopedic overview

28 sections

Contents

History
Trawling
Recreational fishing
Techniques
Tackle
Fishing vessels
Traditional fishing
Recreational fishing
Fishing industry
Commercial fishing
Fish farms
Fish products
Fish marketing
Fisheries management
Sustainability
Animal welfare concerns
Plastic pollution
Cultural impact
Community
Economic
Semantic
Religious
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

The term fishing is also used more broadly to include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp/lobsters/crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus/squid) and echinoderms (starfish/sea urchins). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in controlled cultivations (fish farming). Nor is it normally applied to hunting aquatic mammals, where terms like whaling and sealing are used instead.

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