"Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting, and poisoning."
Catching fish as a sport or for consumption in rivers, lakes, or oceans.
Fishing Gear: An overview of different types of fishing gear, such as fishing rods, reels, lines, lures, and hooks.
Bait and Lures: Exploring the different types of bait and lures that are used to catch fish, including live bait, artificial lures, flies, and jigs.
Fishing Techniques: Covering basic fishing techniques, such as casting, trolling, and fly fishing, as well as more advanced methods such as spinning and topwater fishing.
Fish Anatomy and Behavior: Understanding fish anatomy and behavior can help you catch fish more effectively. Topics will include how fish see, smell, and hear, as well as how they feed and move.
Fishing Safety: Discussing safety procedures and equipment when out on the water, such as the proper use of life jackets, sunscreen, and personal flotation devices.
Fishing Knots: Learning how to tie different types of fishing knots that are useful for attaching lures, leaders, and hooks.
Fish Identification: Familiarizing yourself with the various types of fish that you may catch in your area, including their appearance, habits, and distribution.
Fishing Regulations: Understanding the rules and regulations for fishing in your area, such as limits on the size and number of fish that can be caught, and the time of year for certain types of fishing.
Watercraft and Navigation: Exploring different types of watercraft and how to navigate on different types of bodies of water, such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Fish Cleaning and Preparation: Learning how to clean, fillet, and cook fish for consumption, as well as the proper way to store and transport fish after you’ve caught them.
Fly Fishing: A type of fishing where a fly lure is cast with a special fly rod and reel to catch fish.
Ice Fishing: A type of fishing where a hole is drilled into a frozen body of water to fish through it.
Trawling: A type of fishing where fish are captured in a net that is towed behind a boat.
Angling: A type of fishing where fish are caught using a hook and bait.
Spearfishing: A type of fishing where fish are caught using a spear or spear gun.
Surfcasting: A type of fishing where fish are caught from the shoreline using a fishing rod and lure.
Trolling: A type of fishing where a fishing line is drawn behind a moving boat to attract fish.
Spin Fishing: A type of fishing that involves using a spinning reel to cast and retrieve a fishing lure.
Bait Fishing: A type of fishing where fish are caught using natural or artificial bait.
Jug Fishing: A type of fishing where a floating baited jug is left in the water to catch fish.
Noodling: A type of fishing where fish are caught using only the hands and feet.
Crabbing: A type of fishing where crabs are caught using a trap or a net.
Bowfishing: A type of fishing where fish are caught using a bow and arrow.
Kayak Fishing: A type of fishing where fish are caught from a kayak.
Bottom Fishing: A type of fishing where the bait is dropped to the bottom to catch fish that feed there.
"Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands, and reservoirs."
"The term fishing broadly includes 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."
"Fishing has been an important part of human culture since hunter-gatherer times."
"Fishing is one of the few food production activities that have persisted from prehistory into the modern age, surviving both the Neolithic Revolution and successive Industrial Revolutions."
"In addition to being caught to be eaten for food, fish are caught as recreational pastimes. Fishing tournaments are held, and caught fish are sometimes kept long-term as preserved or living trophies."
"When bioblitzes occur, fish are typically caught, identified, and then released."
"The total number of commercial fishers and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million."
"Fishing industries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people in developing countries."
"In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms (32 lb)."
"With an additional 7.4 kilograms (16 lb) harvested from fish farms."
"Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting, and trapping."
"The term fishing broadly includes catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp/lobsters/crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus/squid), and echinoderms (starfish/sea urchins)."
"...as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting, and poisoning."
"Fishing tournaments are held, and caught fish are sometimes kept long-term as preserved or living trophies."
"When bioblitzes occur, fish are typically caught, identified, and then released."
"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."