Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing

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Template:WP Fishing Sidebar Welcome to the Fisheries and Fishing WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to fisheries, aquaculture and fishing. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members!

Goals

To organize articles on fisheries, aquaculture and fishing in a way that is useful.
To improve coverage of these areas by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to fisheries, aquaculture and fishing in Wikipedia.

Scope: The project generally considers articles related to historical or contemporary fisheries, aquaculture or fishing to be within its scope.

Members

If you are interested, you are very welcome to join and help us with the Fisheries and Fishing Wikiproject. Just sign below and, if you like, you can say what area you are particularly interested in (the fish might bite, but we don't!).

Active

If you want to become a member, click the "edit" link to the right and add your username alphabetically by using the {{user|Username}} format. If you want to, you can add the {{User WProject Fishing}} userbox to your userpage. If you subsequently leave the project, please remove your name from the list.

A-tron (talk · contribs) — joined 17 September 2009 - I'm a fisheries economist looking to edit and improve fisheries topics with links to economics.
Billreid (talk · contribs) — joined 11 May 2008 - Deep sea fishing and fisheries, fishing communities
Diamonddannyboy (talk · contribs) — joined 29 March 2008 - Im a keen carp fisherman and all rounder, fish the famous sutton.
Elnuko (talk · contribs) — joined 13 Dec 2007

Frankmoley (talk · contribs) — joined 12 March 2008 - midwestern fly fisher and bass fisher....love all kinds of fishing and fish. I would like to look at updating the rivers that hold trout.
Epipelagic (talk · contribs) — joined 26 February 2008 - general dogsbody
Habaneroman (talk · contribs) — joined 14 Sep 2007
Hcberkowitz (talk · contribs) — joined 15 July 2007 - interested in commercial fishing, especially the monitoring, control, and surveillance thereof. I'm working with Vessel Management System and other maritime electronics.
Kukulski (talk · contribs) — joined 31 August 2009 - Wish to distill the posts on the NANFA Forum into useful wiki information.
Mike Cline (talk · contribs) — joined 16 May 2007 - created Bibliography of fly fishing and actively contributes to Fly Fishing, Fly Tying and Related Articles.
Themcman1 (talk · contribs) — joined 20 April 2007
Ummagumma23 (talk · contribs) — joined 9 July 2007

Inactive

Names are manually moved here if no wikipedia edits have been made for at least six months (last updated 1 December 2009). If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active list.

Bass fishing physicist (talk · contribs) — joined 4 May 2007
Bu b0y2007 (talk · contribs) — joined 19 April 2007
ChrisCotton (talk · contribs) — joined 3 June 2007
cf38 (talk · contribs) — joined 17 December 2007
Dusty.crockett (talk · contribs) — joined 7 January 2009
Ebolred (talk · contribs) — joined 03 Jul 2008
LaughingVulcan (talk · contribs) — joined 23 May 2007
Majikfactory (talk · contribs) — joined 26 September 2007
Medicellis (talk · contribs) — joined 4 August 2008
OAS (talk · contribs) — joined 4 February 2008
Steven130793 (talk · contribs) — joined 2 May 2007

Ways to contribute

To do list

This list is transcluded from the to do page, to edit, click here

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
- Looking for a public domain image of G.E.M. Skues. I far as I know there is a single known image of him sitting with his fly rod. It appears in many books and web articles. I just can't find the original source which is probably in the public domain somewhere. Can any of you British guys help out here?--Mike Cline (talk) 13:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- culture of Póvoa de Varzim copyediting by native English speakers needed. --Pedro (talk) 09:13, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tasks

This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit it click here.

Here are some tasks you can do for the Fisheries & Fishing WikiProject:

Copyedit:

Merge: GLAM/ARKive donated texts into articles about endangered species.

Expand: Marine Protected Area I've exaused myself working on this article. Still more. Please help finish the Global status section! ResMar 17:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Develop to featured article:

Article request:

Picture request:

Category:Wikipedia requested images of fishing

(Upload any non-copyrighted fishing images to the appropriate section of Wikimedia Commons)

Template modification request:

I would like to add The_Black_Fish to Template:Fishery_science_topics] under "Organisations". If no one adds it and if there are no objections in the next few days, I'll go ahead and add it. Diffly (talk) 07:00, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Other:

Fish Legal is tagged showing how it needs work, and Talk:Fish Legal needs review to see if the WikiProject templates are appropriate. --DThomsen8 (talk) 02:08, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Current projects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing/current

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Requests

Discussions

You can start a discussion on the projects talk page.

Proposals

To add a proposal, add it in the proposal page.

Assessment

For more info on our assessment system, see the assessment page.

Templates

For a list and explanation of our project templates see the templates page.

Some notable articles

Here is a list of some notable articles within the scope of WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing.

Featured : Shrimp farm

A class: Fly fishing, Krill fishery

GA class : Marine Harvest

B class: Alaskan king crab fishing Template:·w American Museum of Fly Fishing Template:·w Angling Template:·w Angling in Yellowstone National Park Template:·w Aquaculture Template:·w Aquaculture in New Zealand Template:·w Aquaculture of salmon Template:·w Aquaculture of tilapia Template:·w Aquatic ecosystem Template:·w Artificial fly Template:·w Bass fishing Template:·w Bibliography of fly fishing Template:·w Big Hole River Template:·w Blast fishing Template:·w Bottom trawling Template:·w Cetacean bycatch Template:·w Chasse-marée Template:·w Cod Wars Template:·w Common Fisheries Policy Template:·w Discards Template:·w Dolphin safe label Template:·w Dory Template:·w European Fishery MLS Template:·w Exclusive Economic Zone Template:·w Fish (food)Template:·w Fish farming Template:·w Fish hook Template:·w Fisheries management Template:·w Fishing Template:·w Fishing hook Template:·w Fishing in Alabama Template:·w Fishing industry in China Template:·w Fishing industry in Russia Template:·w Fishing industry in Scotland Template:·w Fishing industry in the Maldives Template:·w Fishing industry in the United States Template:·w Fishing reel Template:·w Fishing rod Template:·w Fishing trawler Template:·w Fishing vessel Template:·w Fly fishing Template:·w Fly tying Template:·w Forage fish Template:·w Freshwater prawn farm Template:·w Gillnet Template:·w Glass float Template:·w Hol Chan Marine Reserve Template:·w Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture Template:·w Intertidal ecology Template:·w Krill fishery Template:·w Macassan contact with Australia Template:·w Marine Protected Area Template:·w Marine debris Template:·w Marine pollution Template:·w Moray Firth fishing disaster Template:·w Nobby (boat)Template:·w Overfishing Template:·w Population dynamics of fisheries Template:·w Ed Ricketts Template:·w Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency Template:·w Sea louse Template:·w Shoaling and schooling Template:·w Stockfish Template:·w Surf fishing Template:·w Taura syndrome Template:·w Traditional fishing boats Template:·w Trawling Template:·w Trophic cascade Template:·w Types of fish Template:·w Turtle excluder device Template:·w Woolly Bugger Template:·w Woolly Worm (imitation)

Did you knows (DYKs): Entries from these articles appeared on the main page Did you know? section.

Aquaculture in China Template:·w Aquaculture in New Zealand Template:·w Aquaculture of salmon Template:·w Cast net Template:·w Demersal fish Template:·w Discards Template:·w Factory ship Template:·w Fish diseases and parasites Template:·w Fisheries and climate change Template:·w Fishing industry in New Zealand Template:·w Fishing industry in China Template:·w Fishing industry in Russia Template:·w Fishing industry in the United States Template:·w Fishing tackle Template:·w Fishing vessel Template:·w Fishing village Template:·w Forage fish Template:·w Grebe Lake Template:·w Herring Buss Template:·w Infectious salmon anemia virus Template:·w Krill fishery Template:·w Mahi-mahi fishing‎Template:·w Mincarlo (trawler)Template:·w Nobby (boat)Template:·w Pain in fish Template:·w Pelagic fish Template:·w Population dynamics of fisheries Template:·w Puretic power block Template:·w Royal Coachman Template:·w Sea louse Template:·w Scallop dredge Template:·w Shrimp farm‎Template:·w Spey casting Template:·w Shoaling and schooling Template:·w Traditional fishing boats Template:·w Types of fish Template:·w Villy Christensen

Alerts

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Articles For Deletion

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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Results

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.

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing is a multidisciplinary wikiProject which is related to or has some overlap with many other WikiProjects:

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