fishing
(fɪʃɪŋ )
uncountable noun A2
Fishing is the sport, hobby, or business of catching fish.
Despite the poor weather the fishing has been pretty good.
...a fishing boat.
Synonyms: angling, trawling
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Idioms:
be on a fishing expedition [mainly US]
to be trying to find out the truth or the facts about something, often in a secretive way
You know why you're here. You're on a fishing expedition. You're hunting for material.
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Collocations:
fishing float fishing guide fishing hook fishing lake fishing lodge fishing lure fishing pier fishing pond fishing quota fishing reel fishing regulations fishing restrictions fishing season fishing spot fishing trawler fishing vessel fishing waters freshwater fishing illegal fishing longline fishing offshore fishing recreational fishing shark fishing sports fishing tuna fishing
Since those early days, the fishing float has become the subject of much practical and theoretical change.
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It involves a stick (knotty), which can be almost any form of wooden implement, and a cork fishing float as ball with varying sizes of players.
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Dried leaf petioles are a source of cellulose pulp, used for walking sticks, brooms, fishing floats and fuel.
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The wood, being both strong and light, makes excellent fishing floats, toys, insulating material and drawing boards.
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Various light corkwood -type woods have been used around the world as fishing floats.
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The trip involves lodge, meals and fishing guides.
Times, Sunday Times
Another item on the table for debate concerns fishing guides.
Houston Chronicle
Fishing guides and helicopter services are available too.
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Work was available as hunting and fishing guides and cleaning tourist lodges.
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The marina offers fishing guides, cabin, boat and canoe rentals, a restaurant and convenience store.
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The video ends with an image of a flower dangling on a fishing hook.
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Common human-caused injuries to aquatic birds include habitat destruction, plastic pollution, fishing hook lacerations, and fishing line entanglements.
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He puts in a fishing hook into his nasal cavity so that it shows up out of his mouth.
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A fishing hook must be hard and strong but absolutely not brittle.
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Those on the long outer ring hang like fishing hooks from a tentacle.
Times,Sunday Times
They also get sporting activities, their own fishing lake and can even have acupuncture treatment.
The Sun
Set in 30 acres of parkland, it has an award-winning café and a fishing lake.
Times,Sunday Times
Back on the farm, you'll find a fishing lake, a playground and pot painting.
Times, Sunday Times
The five-bed, four-bath home boasts its own fishing lake, tennis court and hot-tub.
The Sun
She provides a hand-drawn map and you can easily spend an hour wandering the rhododendron- and pheasant-filled woods, hilly fields and fishing lake.
Times,Sunday Times
Built in the 1860s as a fishing lodge, it has been modernised.
Times, Sunday Times
Not that it's gothic... or a fishing lodge.
Times, Sunday Times
We could all stay in my uncle's fishing lodge.
Times, Sunday Times
He finished the war at the rank of master sergeant and then aspired to become a taxidermist or the owner of a hunting/fishing lodge.
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It was flying to an unspecified fishing lodge.
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They are regularly seen picking up objects to use as a fishing lure, attracting prey fish.
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It dangles its esca as a fishing lure to attract small fish, shrimps, and other invertebrates.
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He also rejoined his grandfather's fishing lure business following the war.
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Musical instrument strings and leader wire used for fishing lures are readily available and inexpensive.
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The town used government recovery funds to build a smart, ecologically sound marina with 160 berths and a 1,100ft fishing pier.
Times, Sunday Times
While queueing, guests pass beneath a mock fishing pier and shipwrecks rich in corals, and the ride itself juts out over water.
Times, Sunday Times
It can be viewed from an adjacent fishing pier.
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The park also includes a fishing pier which includes a small boat hoist; also nearby are some favorite surfing locations.
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Demolition has begun on the southernmost part of the fishing pier.
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Other facilities include an indoor swimming pool and racquetball court, gym, tennis court, fishing pond and cross-country ski trails.
Times, Sunday Times
It contains developing woodlands, meadow areas and a fishing pond leased to a local angling club.
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The park contains a nature center, picnic shelters, a large fishing pond, 14 cabins and 50 campsites.
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The park also offers soccer and softball fields, a playground, fishing pond, and basketball courts.
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The yard included a three-car garage, garden, and fishing pond.
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There's not a moment's respite from the melodrama in a film with so many red herrings that it needs a fishing quota.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The sale of fishing quotas should be made more transparent by publishing a list of quota owners.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The lack of a fishing quota on sea bass, and increasingly extreme fishing methods, resulted in a significant drop in population.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I like the simple ones that you simply hold in your hands and wind, like a fishing reel.
Times, Sunday Times
On some machines, moving wire guides performed this function, like the mechanism that distributes line across a fishing reel.
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Two variations of the revolving spool bait casting reel are the conventional surf fishing reel and the big game reel.
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A special fishing reel controller was released with the first game that was also compatible with the sequels.
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When stored on a spool for a long time, it may come off the fishing reel in coils or loops.
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New government fishing regulations, for example, mean nothing to them.
The Times Literary Supplement
By tightening fishing regulations and implementing protective measures, sharks can be saved, they told world governments.
Times, Sunday Times
A high number of trawlers breach fishing regulations but few are arrested.
Times, Sunday Times
He admitted breaking fishing regulations by smuggling 100 fish including carp, roach and goldfish, in the boot of his car.
Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes, fishing regulations are frustrating.
Houston Chronicle
Tougher fishing restrictions and serious regional depletions are also expected to push prices higher as the dark red flesh grows rarer.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite strong scientific evidence that marine reserves benefit both the fishing industry and the environment, globally less than two per cent of the sea has any kind of fishing restrictions.
Times, Sunday Times
These fishing restrictions could prove beneficial for the fish in the upper gulf as well as the vaquita.
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The dispute arose because of a difference in fishing restrictions between the two countries.
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It enforces the annual fishing moratorium, protected fish reserves, and other fishing restrictions.
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The news comes 48 hours before the coarse fishing season kicks off.
The Sun
I'd go there in the morning, have my coffee, and spend time there even when it's not fishing season.
Globe and Mail
Occasionally, extra seasonal flights are operated to meet the demand of the fishing season.
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By the 1780s, about 1,000 or 1,500 people lived on the islands, their numbers doubling during the fishing season.
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But the fishery went into decline in the early 1980s and in the 2000-2001 fishing season only 1079 tonnes were taken.
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The bird had chased away a riverside rival seconds before as it searched for the perfect fishing spot.
The Sun
Before that, the steps were my fishing spot, a fantastic place to catch mackerel.
Times,Sunday Times
A heron flew over the embankment and parachuted down on arched wings to a favourite fishing spot.
Times, Sunday Times
The pond was a favorite swimming hole and fishing spot until the mid-1970s.
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It seems more likely that it emerged from the island's use as a hunting and fishing spot.
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I've swum with crocodiles, followed the migration of the wildebeest and lived on a fishing trawler for two weeks.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This former fishing vessel has been transformed into a charming spa boat that offers scenic views from an on-deck hot tub.
Times,Sunday Times
But the owner of the fishing vessel said the gunfire from the tanker had been 'without provocation'.
Times, Sunday Times
The nation's fishing vessel owners and operators will be horrified.
Times,Sunday Times
Sometimes considered to be 'ship assisted' if seen this far south (a wandering owl might have landed on a fishing vessel) these birds can nevertheless travel vast distances over water.
Times, Sunday Times
A fishing vessel was diverted to pick them up.
Times, Sunday Times
That includes our laws and our fishing waters.
The Sun
This was particularly the case with control of our fishing waters.
The Sun
That includes: controlling our borders; deciding ourselves on a robust and principled subsidy control system; and controlling our fishing waters.
Times,Sunday Times
We will never surrender our fishing waters.
The Sun
And, yes, our fishing waters.
The Sun
Some experts claim that without special measures the sport of coarse freshwater fishing could be wiped out within five years.
Times, Sunday Times
Plus freshwater fishing lakes and an indoor pool with a waterslide to enjoy.
The Sun
Walleye, small and largemouth bass, crappie, northern pike, and many species of panfish make the area's lakes famous for freshwater fishing.
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A trio of lakes provide freshwater fishing and boating opportunities.
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Freshwater fishing and water sports facilities are available.
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He handles about 70 illegal fishing cases a year.
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It's now possible to monitor illegal fishing or whaling from your laptop or tablet.
Times, Sunday Times
Experts estimate that illegal fishing accounts globally for one in five wild-caught fish, worth up to 14.6bn a year.
Times, Sunday Times
That means illegal fishing vessels take up to 26m tons of fish a year.
Times, Sunday Times
In the past decade its population has fallen 60% through rampant illegal fishing.
Times, Sunday Times
Longline fishing involves the baiting of thousands of hooks on lines up to 80 miles long.
Times, Sunday Times
Most of the fishing has traditionally been longline fishing, especially for cod.
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They are used not only to keep fishing nets afloat, but also for dropline and longline fishing.
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Trawling, gill nets, ghost nests, longline fishing, and pot fishing, have significantly affected olive ridley populations, as well as other species of marine turtles.
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Illegal fishing also brings further risks through the use of techniques banned in regulated fishing, such as gillnetting and longline fishing.
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He had built it at home for an offshore fishing trip.
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Rich fish merchants invested in the fleet, and the new ship owners or wards took control of the offshore fishing.
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Inshore boats are typically small enough to be carried on a trailer, and are much more affordable than offshore fishing boats.
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There was only one port at that time and people made a living based from offshore fishing.
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Among the most popular activities are offshore fishing, surfing, windsurfing and horseback riding.
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It said that some countries had failed to report illegal catches and excluded small-scale and recreational fishing.
Times, Sunday Times
The river and its estuaries abound with marine wildlife and are used for recreational fishing and water sports.
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This includes general shoreline use as well as recreational fishing and boating.
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Recreational fishing and leisure boat pursuits have recently become very lucrative, and traditional fishing villages are often well positioned to take advantage of this.
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Year-round education programs and week-long summer camps focused on ethical practices in recreational fishing, marine science, and resource conservation are conducted at the pier.
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The boat skipper was shark fishing with four customers when one hooked the whopper.
The Sun
He also used similar shark fishing techniques based on my methods.
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At one stage, the island was known for its shark fishing, basking shark in particular was fished for its valuable liver oil.
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The use of gill nets for shark fishing as well as the practice of shark finning are now banned.
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The boundary of the park was extended 3nmi km seawards during the 1990s in order to control berleying associated with both shark cage diving and shark fishing.
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The city has sports fishing venues, and swells that are known for drawing professional surfers.
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In the modern period, tourism based on sports fishing, hot spring resorts, and water sports dominates the economy.
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Many tourists come for sports fishing and scuba diving.
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Sports fishing in the area took a few months to recover.
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Sports fishing and whale watching charters operate the regional bay area.
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Income from the tuna fishing industry has also plummeted as fishing boats are targeted by pirates.
Times, Sunday Times
More importantly, by bringing the tuna fishing debate to the fore and addressing fishing methods, sustainability, legality and sourcing policy, we can galvanise change at the point of purchase.
Times, Sunday Times
Some tuna fishing companies have stopped using aggregating devices - floating objects that attract a range of species, including turtles, that are scooped up indiscriminately.
Times, Sunday Times
Most of the estimated 1,900 inhabitants are fisherman specializing in traditional, smallscale tuna fishing and whaling.
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Notable number of people earn their money from tuna fishing, grouper fishing, and other forms of harvesting such as lobster and sea cucumber.
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Translations:
Chinese: 捕鱼
Japanese: 漁業