Talk:Fishing

message: I added some info relating fishing to major religions to the cultural impact section. I will add more later and round out the references. - Melanie  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Melanie-dash (talk • contribs) 21:11, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural Impact

message: I don't know how to revert pages, but someone has vandalized the "Recreational Fishing" portion of this article. Someone needs to fix this. Cereal Box Conspiracy 20:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: This article did not make it to featured article status. That is a pity, perhaps the application was a little premature. Still, Fishing does have the makings a very good and possible feature-quality article. Let us see it we can do it! Gaius Cornelius 22:15, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured Article Status

message: Hi!
I'm just a visitor to this article, and before I start a revert war I'd like to put it up for discussion: Should the Anglers Rest Image be included? Personally I feel it is valuable because it shows a popular recreational fishing river. But lets see what the community thinks. --Fir0002 22:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture is not appropriate here. Removing it was the right thing to do. Gaius Cornelius 17:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree with Gaius Cornelius, and support the removal.  Arnejohs 19:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Anglers Rest Image 

message: is missing. Or is it listed by another name, if so I missed it. Montara State Beach has surf fishing. meatclerk 05:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what surf fishing is. If it is essentially and 'invented sport' then, if it belongs anywhere in Wikipedia, it would be more appropriate under angling or sport fishing. If it is a very popular sport, or is some other way notable, it might deserve an article of its own. Gaius Cornelius 07:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Your note raises an interesting general point: what does and what does not belong in the fishing article. I would say that the article should reflect the practice of fishing throughout the world and throughout history and that the techniques mentioned should be economically or culturally significant to the people who practice it. To this might be added practices that are scientifically significant. Some feedback to establish the consensus would be helpful here. Gaius Cornelius 07:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Surf fishing is a form of angling and, if it merits a home on Wikipedia, should probably live in the angling article. One might also argue that surf fishing really is a form of recreational fishing, since I'm not aware of any subsistence or commercial fisheries that use surf fishing. I think it's inappropriate to try to list every type of angling or every conceivable sort of net or, whatever, in the fishing article. In my opinion, the fishing article should be about fishing in the broadest sense of that word. There are, or should be, other articles to amplify specific kinds of fishing. See, the way I see the hierarchy is this: the fishing article is about the elements that are common to all types of fishing and not about any specific form of fishing. A descendant of the fishing article is the angling article which is about the elements common to all types of angling, whether that be commercial long-line angling fisheries or fly-fishing for sport or any other form of angling. A descendant of the angling article might be the recreationl fishing article which is about the elements that are common to all forms of recreational fishing, etc, etc, etc. Of course, this is only my vision so I'd welcome anyone to tell me I'm full of excrement.  — Dave 13:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Surf fishing

message: This text was added to the article; it needs to be cleaned up before being included.
Saltwater fishing is classified in two groups. Group A inshore which includes canals, bays, beach, ... THe many variety of fish include snook, redfish, and sea trout as the most popular inshore fish in florida though there are many more. As for group B which is offshore that includes the Oceans and Gulfs. In Florida some of the popular fish include grouper, snapper, dolphin (mahi mahi) and more. Most offshore fishing takes larger boats inorder to counter act the high intensity of the waves. As for inshore fishing which takes a very boyant boat some are called a flats boat.Depending on the type of fishing and species of fish someone is targeting will depend on the tackle and bait needed.
-- phoebe 07:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saltwater fishing.  

message: Does this list exist?  List of North American fishing ports, List of Brazilian fishing ports, List of Thai fishing ports, List of eastern Pacific ocean fishing ports?  I live near New Bedford, Massachusetts and every year the port finishes in the top ten, for the USA.  --McTrixie 21:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What exactly do you want to change/add. Also I know it’s 16 years later but like InfernaIBaze (talk) 03:16, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists of fishing ports by country 

message: I have drawn this diagram, but I do not know the name of the parts in English, maybe somebody can provide a caption and a use for this image. Chabacano 23:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Thanks to the anonymous helper :) Chabacano 14:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ask for translation

message: The article needs some cleaning up. There's a lot of random bolding and redundancies in areas, while some sections require rewriting in a more encyclopedic tone. Isopropyl 04:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Very true. The section on recreational fishing is disproportionately long. Part of this article's problems are caused by well-meaning but lazy contributors who do not seem to bother with reading the whole article before adding inappropriate content; and the article attracts vandals and spam linkers. Perhaps we could get it semi-protected? Gaius Cornelius 12:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup necessary 

message: There had been a discussion to merge Sport fishing and Angling, but as sport fishing is not a subset of angling it does not make sense to merge them thus.  I have therefore merged the info here under the "modern fishing" subsection.  
However this article has become rather long, and already was before the addition of that information.  Having "sport fishing" forked off on its own didn't seem to make a lot of sense, but a split somewhere else might be better.  Perhaps fork out the entire "modern fishing" section into its own article?  Arkyan • (talk) 21:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger from [[Sport fishing]], potential for split along different lines 

message: Please see Fishing Proposal Page for more information about other things to be done regarding this project
Its about time to put this task which is the need to lessen the size of the Fishing article without loosing any of the important information in our priority list. This move is still apart of our move to objective to thoughtfully organize articles on fishing (see WikiProject Fishing). I would like to ask for your (each and everyone concerned) help, assistance, and approval for this move. I am planning to do the following revisions right after your approval:
:*Truncate the  Fishing nets section and link it to its existing main article by placing the tag: Main article: Fishing net before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be transfered to Fishing net, in this way, the Fishing net article will be expanded. done as of 5/9/2007
:*The Dredging section will be connected to Dredging's Fishing section. Further expansion to Dredging's Fishing section will then be done.
:*Truncate the  Fishing lines section and and link it to its existing main article by placing the tag: Main article: Fishing line before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be transfered to Fishing line, in this way, the Fishing line article will be expanded. done as of 5/17/2007
:*I am currently doing an article, Kite fishing. Right after this is done and approved. I am also planning to truncate the  Kite fishing section and link it to the main article which I am currently creating by placing the tag: Main article: Kite fishing before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be added to Kite fishing.
:*I wish to create another article for Modern Fishing and shortly discuss Recreational fishing, Sport fishing, Commercial fishing, and other subcategories regarding Modern fishing. These subcategories will then be linking to there existing main articles.
:*I wish to add more fishing related sections and link them to their main articles using the Main article: <main article title>
Please let me know what you think. Thank you and more power to us all. Bu b0y2007 05:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fishing/Proposals|Fishing Article Improvement]] 

message: Pesca del Dorado en la Argentina  /  Fishing from Argentina
 
http://www.estancialabrava.com.ar —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.41.230.162 (talk) 14:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Un buen sitio de pesca 

message: First of all, I would personally like to thank you for actively guarding our Fishing Project. I've seen all your efforts of protecting the Fishing article from those harmful vandals. I've recently made a major revision from all those revisions/reverts that were made previously by bots and other wikipedians because some of the important information there were lost despite the effort of each and everyone to guard the said article. Let us continue to protect all those excellent articles. Thanks and more power! Bu b0y2007 02:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Fishing]] revisions 

message: I just made an edit to the "Recreational fishing" section of the article to make the "main" point to Sport fishing, as it truly should. Recreational and sport fishing are very nearly synonymous. Angling, on the other hand, is a method of fishing that can be used for recreational, sport, commercial fishing, etc. The trouble, as I see it, is that there are two sections, "Recreational fishing" and "Sport fishing" that really talk about the same thing save for a slight semantic distinction. Those two sections, in my opinion, should be collapsed. — Dave (Talk | contribs) 12:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are absolutly right! Gaius Cornelius 13:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Yeah that's true... Bu b0y2007 04:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sport fishing versus angling

message: I've deleted this section:
Squirrel fishing
Squirrel fishing is the sporting practice of "catching" squirrels and attempting to lift them into the air using a peanut tied to a string or fishing line, and optionally some kind of fishing pole.
In most cases, squirrels playfully tug and grapple with the nuts, while the human participant skillfully angles with his or her quarry. A delicate approach is required in squirrel fishing. Anyone can pull a nut from the hands of a squirrel, but the adept "squirrel fisher" must hone his craft, maintaining balance between himself and the squirrel, and eventually rewarding the squirrel for his valiant competition by ceding the nut. Ideally, great care is taken not to overfeed squirrels, not to hit them with nuts, and not to treat them roughly.''
It is completely out of place with the rest of the article.
16:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "squirrel fishing" section 

message: This theory has very little support among main-stream scientists. You can check the Wikipedia article on this as well, it also points out the strong scepticism against the theory. I believe the Aquatic Ape theory  should be put under a category like Trivia and not at the beginning of the article, since this lends it more credibility than it deserves.
Weeddude 10:09, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was me that put it in in the first place, but I am inclinded to agree with you. Gaius Cornelius 16:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aquatic Ape Theory

message: Added assessment template. LaughingVulcan 22:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Fishing Assessment Drive 

message: Those of you who monitor this page might be interested in Fishing techniques, created by a new user from their thesis work. It is in dire need of cleanup and may recreate some information already presented here. I wasn't sure what to do with it. Anyone want to take it on? --Rkitko (talk) 17:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Fishing techniques]] 

message: At the moment, this section has nothing on line fishing or its various types such as fly fishing and lure fishing.  All it has is a sentence on fishing lines, which is part of the tackle, not a technique. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Has splitting the whole section off been considered? I.e. an article fishing techniques, summarized here of course. Other possibilities that occur to me are recreational fishing and history of fishing. Richard001 (talk) 07:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fishing techniques section 

message: I was bold and gave the article a major overhaul. I think much of the techniques stuff should be restored, but I wasn't the best one to distill it. (Hopefully someone else can write a somewhat longer summary.)  Feel free to put back stuff that you think should be included. Two sections I think need to be written are about subsistence fishing (only recreational and commercial fishing were covered) and about fishing culture, both for recreational fisherman and for fishing villages, etc. Mangostar (talk) 06:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also missing is fishing between about 1000 AD and 1950 AD. Mangostar (talk) 07:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article overhaul 

message: Mangostar - generally good editing, but making over 50 consecutive edits in two days is a bit of a problem since it makes it really hard to figure out what you've done and why. I started looking into this because your new EL is in violation of WP:ELLinks to be Avoided #10 - linking to an aggregate site. Can you go over your edits and describe what you've done and why on this talk page? I think it's generally a good idea to do that prior to undertaking so many changes anyhow. Thanks Bob98133 (talk) 13:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I made so many changes so that you could read my reasoning in each edit in the edit summary. Actually, DMOZ links are explicitly endorsed in WP:EL.  I think my edits are sufficiently explained by their edit summaries, though I would be glad to answer more specific questions. Mangostar (talk) 00:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Too many edits

message: Someone needs to move the pictures around, because frankly, the article looks horrible the way it is now.  (Blank spots, huge jumps between text, etc.)  I tried to, but someone reverted my edit.  So, I'm leaving it to someone else.  kkarma 15:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving the Pictures Around 

message: ::By extension, the term fishing is applied to pursuing other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, frogs, and some edible marine invertebrates. The term fishing is not usually applied to pursuing aquatic mammals such as whales, where the term "whaling" is more appropriate, or to commercial fish farming.
I think the above, 2nd ph of the article, claims that fishing includes all these other activities when they all have other names that are more commonly used. Perhaps should be changed to "The term fishing may be applied to pusuing other...Bob98133 (talk) 14:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, I agree with you. --Geronimo20 (talk) 19:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrimping, frog hunting, clamming...? 

message: The biggest threats to the recreational fishing are:
1-regulation of magnuson stevens that is not science based nor is it flexible.
2-radical environmental organizations who want marine protected areas to ban fishing.It does nothing to propogate the species who are mostly migratory.
3-Apathy by fisherman not willing to join any organization,they just complain.
4-unfair quotas which are more liberal than what is allowable to catch & keep compared to the recreational fisherman.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.187.179 (talk) 23:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recreationaql fishing in danger 

message: ... both need covered in this article. I added the term and an inline comment as follows:
...angling (including trolling); For those of you lacking experience, that's pronounced like Trawling, not a fantasy monster or internet bad boy—despite the spelling, it's context that matters. // FrankB 04:08, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trolling, Trolling motors 

message: whats the differentance between fishing and angling?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richie-Zhang (talk • contribs) 05:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The best place to ask questions like this is at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. Article talk pages are for the people who are writing the article. Anyway, angling is fishing with a hook ("angle"), or hooks. It can be contrasted with fishing without hooks, such as fishing with nets, traps or spears. You could look at the article on angling. --Epipelagic (talk) 11:06, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  whats the differentance between fishing and angling? 

message: It is understandable, Omulazimoglu, given that you have just uploaded a photo that you took by yourself of people fishing, that you now want to promote your picture as a lead image on the main fishing article. However there are over 7,000 other images available on fishing at commons that other people have also taken. You need to need to establish what it about your photo that makes it so special. The image you are proposing appears to be of several recreational anglers fishing from a jetty. It is quite a nice picture, but it doesn't illustrate anything of particular interest. You might say the moon is nice, but it is nothing to do with fishing. On the other hand, the photo you want to replace shows an unusually elegant method of netting fish, with a pleasing style and colouring. In my opinion, it is a more suitable photo than the one you want to replace it with. Please stop edit warring and explain your reasoning here. You can reinstate your photo if you get a consensus from other editors that your photo is indeed the more appropriate photo. --Epipelagic (talk) 04:16, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are right. MULAZIMOGLU (talk) 07:17, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead image

message: Removing tag associating this article with Wikiproject Fishes. "WikiProject Fishes aims to help organise our rapidly growing collection of articles about fish taxa. Issues outside the scope of this WikiProject include fishkeeping (fish aquarium topics), fishing, fisheries, fish cuisine topics, fish farm topics, fish market topics, fish processing topics, fish product sales topics, fish products topics, and fish trap topics." [direct cut and paste from project main page]. This article does not fall within the scope of that wikiproject. Neil916 (Talk) 07:37, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Fishes 

message: Working on history of technology for another language wiki I don't see in the historical articles anything about the impact of fishery on development of permanent settlements. I understand that hunters-gatherers could only become really sedentary after moving to agriculture. But what about lakeside fishers who had all-year supply of fish? Would they not be the first ones to start permanent settlements? Who knows something?
Beside: The opening sentence of the article sounds a bit silly. I cannot believe that "Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish." Although it is forbidden here on wikipedia I did original research some years ago by putting a hook into the water and trying to catch fish - without success. Unfortunately there were some people upstream who were actually fishing and pulling fish out of the water. I never tried again and was deeply embarassed and would never claim that I did fishing. I failed. --Kipala (talk) 18:15, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have relevant reliably sourced material about long term settlements and fisheries, please feel free to add it. There is an article on the history of fishing which is the place to put stuff like that. I know many fishermen who would find it irritating, but not strange to say that they came back empty handed from a fishing trip. --Epipelagic (talk) 00:09, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History of Fishing

message: Science is reporting evidence for deep sea fishing of tuna, shark, barracuda dating to 42,000 BCE. here is a news report, but a link to science would be best.(mercurywoodrose)75.61.135.200 (talk) 21:46, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Deep sea fishing evidence

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message: some people call it a sport but to me it is a lifestyle  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.109.9.59 (talk) 13:29, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
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message: Live or dead bait is not terminal tackle. 67.44.176.184 (talk) 01:46, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. JTP (talk • contribs) 02:04, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2018 

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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Fishing]] for deletion 

message: - hi, a quick note about this revert. I'm interpreting you comment in the edit summary ('given the times') as an indication that you are concerned about the global extent of overfishing currently - please believe me when I say that I share that concern, we're on the same page there. However, the links in question don't seem to me to be in-line with the expectations of EL -they're both opinion pieces. Either one of them could potentially be used as a source to support an assertion within the article (with appropriate attribution), but I'd be interested to hear why you think they are suitable for inclusion as ELs. Best GirthSummit (blether) 22:37, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure. Daniel Pauly is arguably the most influential fisheries scientist of recent decades as well as the most prominent global investigator of overfishing. The piece is a bit dated now and Pauly is no longer very active, but his views are not mere opinion. The other link shows global maps on fishing activity, something that ideally should be in the article. But no equivalent maps I am aware of have copyrights suitable for upload to Commons. The maps are produced by the Global Fishing Watch which is a Google initiative in collaboration with Oceana and SkyTruth as well as the National Geographic Society and several prominent universities. The maps are based on data from the automatic identification system which tracks fishing boats using satellites, and are not just a matter of opinion. I agree items like these would be better integrated into the article. But because they haven't been integrated is not in my view a reason to delete them. I may attempt an integration when I have time. That would include attempting to find a more up to date overview with the stature of Pauly's, as well as trying to locate a global map on fishing activity suitable for uploading to Commons. — Epipelagic (talk) 09:11, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

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