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someone who catches fish
few fishers of lake trout are more ardent or adept than my father
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Recent Examples of fishers
Money speaks, the land listens, where the Anarchist skulked, where the horsethief plied his trade, we fishers of Americans will cast our nets of perfect ten-acre mesh, leveled and varmint-proofed, ready to build on.
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Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Farmers and fishers know their ecosystems better than anyone.
—Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
See it In Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, fishers caught four crab-eating frogs, Fejervarya moodiei, marking the first record of this species in the province.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Flowers bloom in riverbank gardens near where fishers angle to hook one of the over 70 species of fish in the water, up from less than 10 before the passage of the Clean Water Act.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The short season, when thousands of fishers and crew live on Bristol Bay, home of the world’s largest sockeye population, for about six short weeks, others processing on land, provides the global supply of sockeye salmon for the entire year to come.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Farmers and fishers know their ecosystems better than anyone.
—Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
See it In Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, fishers caught four crab-eating frogs, Fejervarya moodiei, marking the first record of this species in the province.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Flowers bloom in riverbank gardens near where fishers angle to hook one of the over 70 species of fish in the water, up from less than 10 before the passage of the Clean Water Act.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The short season, when thousands of fishers and crew live on Bristol Bay, home of the world’s largest sockeye population, for about six short weeks, others processing on land, provides the global supply of sockeye salmon for the entire year to come.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Through radio and snow tracking, biologists later found that the fishers that were released in northwestern Connecticut had high survival rates and successfully reproduced.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fishers
fishermen
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Finolhu also exclusively sources fish from local fishermen and hires local artists and musicians.—
Taylor McIntyre,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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Reports of the ship would come in batches from locals, fishermen and other sailors; the fog evidently the perfect atmosphere to draw this ghost ship back home.—
Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Fishers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fishers. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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