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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fishing may include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales where the term whaling is more appropriate.
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You go fishing for swimming dinner. I go fishing for compliments. Mine pairs better with drinking beer.
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― Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
― Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
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By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been in the past--saying catches were going up when, in fact, they were going down--this statement is worth examining carefully. When you do, you find it to be an observation of previous trends, not a reflection of what could happen or what people might want--in the same way as Red Delicious was once far and away the most popular apple in the United States because it was
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― The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
― The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
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