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'''[[Squirrel fishing]]''' is the sporting practice of "catching" [[squirrel]]s and attempting to lift them into the air using a [[peanut]] tied to a string or [[fishing line]], and optionally some kind of [[fishing pole]]. |
'''[[Squirrel fishing]]''' is the sporting practice of "catching" [[squirrel]]s and attempting to lift them into the air using a [[peanut]] tied to a string or [[fishing line]], and optionally some kind of [[fishing pole]]. |
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In most cases, squirrels playfully tug and grapple with the nuts, while the human participant skillfully angles with his or her quarry. A delicate approach is required in squirrel fishing. Anyone can pull a nut from the hands of a squirrel, but the adept "squirrel fisher" must hone his craft, maintaining balance between himself and the squirrel, and eventually rewarding the squirrel for his valiant competition by ceding the nut. Ideally, great care is taken not to overfeed squirrels, not to hit them with nuts, and not to treat them roughly. |
In most cases, squirrels playfully tug and grapple with the nuts, while the human participant skillfully angles with his or her quarry. A delicate approach is required in squirrel fishing. Anyone can pull a nut from the hands of a squirrel, but the adept "squirrel fisher" must hone his craft, maintaining balance between himself and the squirrel, and eventually rewarding the squirrel for his valiant competition by ceding the nut. Ideally, great care is taken not to overfeed squirrels, not to hit them with nuts, and not to treat them roughly.'' |
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- Surf fishing
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- Trophic cascade
- Types of fish
- Turtle excluder device
- Woolly Bugger
- Woolly Worm (imitation)
Did you knows (DYKs): Entries from these articles appeared on the main page Did you know? section.
- Aquaculture in China
- Aquaculture in New Zealand
- Aquaculture of salmon
- Cast net
- Demersal fish
- Discards
- Factory ship
- Fish diseases and parasites
- Fish for finance
- Fisheries and climate change
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- Grebe Lake
- Herring Buss
- Infectious salmon anemia virus
- Krill fishery
- Mahi-mahi fishing
- Mincarlo (trawler)
- Nobby (boat)
- Pain in fish
- Pelagic fish
- Population dynamics of fisheries
- Puretic power block
- Royal Coachman
- Sea louse
- Scallop dredge
- Shrimp farm
- Spey casting
- Shoaling and schooling
- Traditional fishing boats
- Types of fish
- Villy Christensen
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The below listed articles related to the Fisheries and Fishing Project are or have been subject to deletion proposals. Project members interested in contributing to the deletion discussion on active deletion debates should do so on the article's deletion page. Members aware of a deletion proposal on a fishing project related article not listed here, should list the article here so that other project members may become aware of it. Editors are reminded of the Wikipedia guideline on Canvassing WP:CANVASS and should not solicit biased contributions to the deletion debate from other editors.
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- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annotated Bibliography of Fly Fishing, January 2008. Result was Keep
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annotated bibliography of fly fishing, June 2008. Result was Keep
- Pawistik Lodge Proposed 26 June 2008. See deletion page. Result was Keep. The original author or others need to clean up this article and source it well for it to stay. Of particular importance is not to make it an Advertisment for the lodge.
- Proposed 22 Jun. See deletion page Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_June_22#Category:Fly_Fishing_Waters Result was to Listify. List of fly fishing waters in North America and List of fly fishing waters in Europe were created and linked to fly fishing article. When adding waters to these lists either:
- Ensure the water's article supports it as a notable fly fishing water
- If no article exists for the water, please source the list with a proper citation.
- Templates for deletion/2008 July 10:Fish market topics Result was Keep July 15, 2008
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fish Information and Services. Result was no consensus, 26 September 2008.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fish Information and Services (2nd nomination). Result was keep, 4 October 2008.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Gustafson. Result was delete, 14 October 2008.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shyster (fishing lure). Result was delete, 14 December 2021.
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- WikiProject Environment
- WikiProject Conservation worldwide
- WikiProject Marine life
- WikiProject Fishes
- WikiProject Sharks
- WikiProject Cetaceans
- WikiProject Gastropods
- WikiProject Cephalopods
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- WikiProject Ships
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Vandalism
I don't know how to revert pages, but someone has vandalized the "Recreational Fishing" portion of this article. Someone needs to fix this. Cereal Box Conspiracy 20:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Featured Article Status
This article did not make it to featured article status. That is a pity, perhaps the application was a little premature. Still, Fishing does have the makings a very good and possible feature-quality article. Let us see it we can do it! Gaius Cornelius 22:15, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Removal of Anglers Rest Image
Hi!
I'm just a visitor to this article, and before I start a revert war I'd like to put it up for discussion: Should the Anglers Rest Image be included? Personally I feel it is valuable because it shows a popular recreational fishing river. But lets see what the community thinks. --Fir0002 22:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- The picture is not appropriate here. Removing it was the right thing to do. Gaius Cornelius 17:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with Gaius Cornelius, and support the removal. Arnejohs 19:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Surf fishing
is missing. Or is it listed by another name, if so I missed it. Montara State Beach has surf fishing. meatclerk 05:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know what surf fishing is. If it is essentially and 'invented sport' then, if it belongs anywhere in Wikipedia, it would be more appropriate under angling or sport fishing. If it is a very popular sport, or is some other way notable, it might deserve an article of its own. Gaius Cornelius 07:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Your note raises an interesting general point: what does and what does not belong in the fishing article. I would say that the article should reflect the practice of fishing throughout the world and throughout history and that the techniques mentioned should be economically or culturally significant to the people who practice it. To this might be added practices that are scientifically significant. Some feedback to establish the consensus would be helpful here. Gaius Cornelius 07:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
If this helps, Surf Fishing is essentially line fishing, but you are casting into the surf. I'm not sure what one will catch, as I've never done this. It would also fit under native american fishing, also oddities, like some movies show this, even tv shows. So, is it a valid fishing method? I'm not 100% sure, but I can bet State of California has laws for it. meatclerk 09:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Surf fishing is a form of angling and, if it merits a home on Wikipedia, should probably live in the angling article. One might also argue that surf fishing really is a form of recreational fishing, since I'm not aware of any subsistence or commercial fisheries that use surf fishing. I think it's inappropriate to try to list every type of angling or every conceivable sort of net or, whatever, in the fishing article. In my opinion, the fishing article should be about fishing in the broadest sense of that word. There are, or should be, other articles to amplify specific kinds of fishing. See, the way I see the hierarchy is this: the fishing article is about the elements that are common to all types of fishing and not about any specific form of fishing. A descendant of the fishing article is the angling article which is about the elements common to all types of angling, whether that be commercial long-line angling fisheries or fly-fishing for sport or any other form of angling. A descendant of the angling article might be the recreationl fishing article which is about the elements that are common to all forms of recreational fishing, etc, etc, etc. Of course, this is only my vision so I'd welcome anyone to tell me I'm full of excrement. — Dave 13:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Now, that I have had some sleep - I am fairly confident I could find a reference for commercial surf fishing, as well as native american surf fishing. I believe it does belong under the modern angling section for recreational fishing. Now that I've had some sleep on this, the things one could catch include eel, and salmon.
On that commercial surf fishing there should be some material. Eel on the surf is common. Some use "pokie poles" and local fishermen from Pillar Point (north of Half Moon Bay, CA) have been known for this and surf fishing. Chinese were known for all types of fishing on the coast, from Half Moon Bay to San Francisco. SF has a "China Beach" which was an early fishing village in a ravine. They used it to avoid being beaten up by white bigots - well known local history. They did surf fishing along with abalone and whaling.
To all this I'm sure there is commerial surf fishing from New Jersey (sp?) to Florida, however now mostly recreational - as is here now. meatclerk 16:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Surf fishing is very popular in South East Queensland Australia. The majority of participants are recreational. Surf Fishing is undertaken regularly as a formal competitive sport - but most participants are undertaking fishing as a recreational past time. The opening line of this article presents the definition of fishing as hunting for fish. I don't associate fishing necessarily with hunting. We also have fishing here as part of indiginous livliehoods and also commercial surf fishing. We have people who undertake fishing from their surf boards - instead of casting. Sit around with a line while waiting for the waves to come through. Popular commercial surf fishing is for Sea Mullet. Recreational species for us that cause a frenzy are Tailor. When the tailor are running you can see 4WDs parked on the beach like a shopping centre and people standing shoulder to shoulder fishing into a gutter into the surf - how the lines don't tangle more often then they do is a mystery. Other fish that are commonly caught in the surf at any time of year include dart, bream, whiting and flathead. We often experience conflict between surf fishing, surfing and swimming all targeting the same beach at the same time. 22 December 2006 (SEQ Guest)
saltwater fishing.
This text was added to the article; it needs to be cleaned up before being included.
Saltwater fishing is classified in two groups. Group A inshore which includes canals, bays, beach, ... THe many variety of fish include snook, redfish, and sea trout as the most popular inshore fish in florida though there are many more. As for group B which is offshore that includes the Oceans and Gulfs. In Florida some of the popular fish include grouper, snapper, dolphin (mahi mahi) and more. Most offshore fishing takes larger boats inorder to counter act the high intensity of the waves. As for inshore fishing which takes a very boyant boat some are called a flats boat.Depending on the type of fishing and species of fish someone is targeting will depend on the tackle and bait needed. -- phoebe 07:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Lists of fishing ports by country
Does this list exist? List of North American fishing ports, List of Brazilian fishing ports, List of Thai fishing ports, List of eastern Pacific ocean fishing ports? I live near New Bedford, Massachusetts and every year the port finishes in the top ten, for the USA. --McTrixie 21:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Ask for translation
I have drawn this diagram, but I do not know the name of the parts in English, maybe somebody can provide a caption and a use for this image. Chabacano 23:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks to the anonymous helper :) Chabacano 14:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Cleanup necessary
The article needs some cleaning up. There's a lot of random bolding and redundancies in areas, while some sections require rewriting in a more encyclopedic tone. Isopropyl 04:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- Very true. The section on recreational fishing is disproportionately long. Part of this article's problems are caused by well-meaning but lazy contributors who do not seem to bother with reading the whole article before adding inappropriate content; and the article attracts vandals and spam linkers. Perhaps we could get it semi-protected? Gaius Cornelius 12:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Merger from Sport fishing, potential for split along different lines
There had been a discussion to merge Sport fishing and Angling, but as sport fishing is not a subset of angling it does not make sense to merge them thus. I have therefore merged the info here under the "modern fishing" subsection.
However this article has become rather long, and already was before the addition of that information. Having "sport fishing" forked off on its own didn't seem to make a lot of sense, but a split somewhere else might be better. Perhaps fork out the entire "modern fishing" section into its own article? Arkyan • (talk) 21:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Please see Fishing Proposal Page for more information about other things to be done regarding this project
Its about time to put this task which is the need to lessen the size of the Fishing article without loosing any of the important information in our priority list. This move is still apart of our move to objective to thoughtfully organize articles on fishing (see WikiProject Fishing). I would like to ask for your (each and everyone concerned) help, assistance, and approval for this move. I am planning to do the following revisions right after your approval:
Truncate the Fishing nets section and link it to its existing main article by placing the tag: Main article: Fishing net before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be transfered to Fishing net, in this way, the Fishing net article will be expanded.done as of 5/9/2007- The Dredging section will be connected to Dredging's Fishing section. Further expansion to Dredging's Fishing section will then be done.
Truncate the Fishing lines section and and link it to its existing main article by placing the tag: Main article: Fishing line before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be transfered to Fishing line, in this way, the Fishing line article will be expanded.done as of 5/17/2007- I am currently doing an article, Kite fishing. Right after this is done and approved. I am also planning to truncate the Kite fishing section and link it to the main article which I am currently creating by placing the tag: Main article: Kite fishing before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be added to Kite fishing.
- I wish to create another article for Modern Fishing and shortly discuss Recreational fishing, Sport fishing, Commercial fishing, and other subcategories regarding Modern fishing. These subcategories will then be linking to there existing main articles.
- I wish to add more fishing related sections and link them to their main articles using the Main article: <main article title>
Please let me know what you think. Thank you and more power to us all. Bu b0y2007 05:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Un buen sitio de pesca
Pesca del Dorado en la Argentina / Fishing from Argentina
http://www.estancialabrava.com.ar —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.41.230.162 (talk) 14:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC).
Fishing revisions
First of all, I would personally like to thank you for actively guarding our Fishing Project. I've seen all your efforts of protecting the Fishing article from those harmful vandals. I've recently made a major revision from all those revisions/reverts that were made previously by bots and other wikipedians because some of the important information there were lost despite the effort of each and everyone to guard the said article. Let us continue to protect all those excellent articles. Thanks and more power! Bu b0y2007 02:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Sport fishing versus angling
I just made an edit to the "Recreational fishing" section of the article to make the "main" point to Sport fishing, as it truly should. Recreational and sport fishing are very nearly synonymous. Angling, on the other hand, is a method of fishing that can be used for recreational, sport, commercial fishing, etc. The trouble, as I see it, is that there are two sections, "Recreational fishing" and "Sport fishing" that really talk about the same thing save for a slight semantic distinction. Those two sections, in my opinion, should be collapsed. — Dave (Talk | contribs) 12:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- You are absolutly right! Gaius Cornelius 13:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah that's true... Bu b0y2007 04:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Removed "squirrel fishing" section
I've deleted this section:
Squirrel fishing
Squirrel fishing is the sporting practice of "catching" squirrels and attempting to lift them into the air using a peanut tied to a string or fishing line, and optionally some kind of fishing pole.
In most cases, squirrels playfully tug and grapple with the nuts, while the human participant skillfully angles with his or her quarry. A delicate approach is required in squirrel fishing. Anyone can pull a nut from the hands of a squirrel, but the adept "squirrel fisher" must hone his craft, maintaining balance between himself and the squirrel, and eventually rewarding the squirrel for his valiant competition by ceding the nut. Ideally, great care is taken not to overfeed squirrels, not to hit them with nuts, and not to treat them roughly.
It is completely out of place with the rest of the article.
16:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)