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organized waiting, marketed as a hobby, occasionally interrupted by triumph or a sunburn
means The activity of trying to catch fish, whether for food, sport, or an excuse to sit by water and do almost nothing.
from From Old English 'fiscian,' to catch fish, built on 'fisc' (fish) — a word with deep Germanic roots, cousin to Dutch 'vis,' German 'Fisch,' and possibly related, far back, to Latin 'piscis.' The '-ing' simply turns the act of fishing into an ongoing thing, which is fitting, since fishing is mostly the ongoing part.
- Ancient sport
- Hooks made of bone date back 23,000 years
- Record holder
- Largest catch ever: a 2,664-pound great white
- Patient millions
- Over 220 million people fish recreationally worldwide
- Silent code
- Anglers legally lie about size; it's tradition
- Deadly waters
- Commercial fishing ranks among Earth's most lethal jobs
the grand banks — atlantic fishing grounds off newfoundland that collapsed from overfishing in the 1990s, ending a 500-year cod fishery
alaska pollock fishery — world's largest single-species fishery by volume, producing 3+ million tons annually in the bering sea
south china sea disputes — competing fishing claims by china, philippines, vietnam, and others since 1945 in one of the world's richest fishing zones