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  2. Sou'wester - Wikipedia

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    A sou'wester is a traditional form of collapsible oilskin rain hat that is longer in the back than the front to protect the neck fully. [1] A gutter front brim is sometimes featured. The name is thought to come from the southwesterly wind which brings warm air from the tropics to the British Isles , often bringing rain as it cools over the sea.

  3. The Perfect Storm (film) - Wikipedia

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    Boat owner Bob Brown ridicules and taunts Captain Billy Tyne over his recent "cold streak". Desperate to redeem himself, Billy convinces the Andrea Gail crew to join him for one more late-season fishing expedition. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, leaving a developing tropical storm behind ...

  4. Oilskin - Wikipedia

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    Oilskin jacket and sou'wester. Oilskin is a waterproof cloth used for making garments typically worn by sailors and by others in wet areas. The modern oilskin garment was developed by a New Zealander, Edward Le Roy, in 1898.

  5. Gillnetting - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary Canadian commercial salmon bowpicker on trailer. Gillnet is evident on the metal drum in the bow of the boat. A fishing vessel rigged to fish by gillnetting is a gillnetter. A gillnetter which deploys its gillnet from the bow is a bowpicker, while one which deploys its gillnet from the stern is a sternpicker.

  6. Commercial fishing - Wikipedia

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    Commercial crab fishing at the Elbe River in June 2007. Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often pursue fish far into the ocean under adverse ...

  7. Gorton's of Gloucester - Wikipedia

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    This company was the first to package salt-dried fish in barrels. In 1899, the company patented the "Original Gorton Fish Cake". In 1905, the Slade Gorton Company adopted the fisherman at the helm of a schooner (the "Man at the Wheel") as the company trademark. Today, he is known as the Gorton's Fisherman.

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