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the term "finfish" refers to bony fishes, sharks and some rays; the term "scalefish" refers to fish bearing scales; the term "fish" can refer to more than one fish, particularly when the fish are from the same species; the term "fishes" refers to more than one species of fish; Fishing – the activity of trying to catch fish
The meaning of the expression can vary, depending on which interpretation of "cut bait" is intended. The original version of the expression derives from the fishing industry, in which fishermen must literally decide between two main tasks: to conduct the actual fishing with a line, or to cut the bait used for fishing.
The term spiked in popularity in 2013 after University of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o was publicly catfished. [8] [10] The 2013 court case Zimmerman v. Board of Trustees of Ball State University saw the first legal use of the term catfishing, with the judge using the Urban Dictionary definition. [13]
Fishing tackles are the equipment used by fishers when fishing. Almost any equipment or gear used for fishing can be called a fishing tackle, although the term is most commonly associated with gear used in angling. Some examples are hooks, lines, sinkers, floats, rods, reels, baits, lures, spears, nets, gaffs, traps, waders, and tackle boxes.
Noodling as a term has also been applied to various unconventional methods of fishing, such as any which do not use bait, rod and reel, speargun, etc., but this usage is much less common. The term has also been applied to the similar capture of snapping turtles. [3]
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Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life [1] or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds). [2] Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farms , both in freshwater waterbodies (about 10% of all catch) and the oceans (about 90%).
A fishwife, fish-fag [1] or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. [2] She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch, but other sources of fish have been used. Some wives and daughters of fishermen were notoriously loud and foul-mouthed, as noted in the expression, To swear like a fishwife as they sold fish in the marketplace.