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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
The lights themselves are also heavy, can make the nets sag, and not easy for fishers to work with.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2025
Citing the Iquique Fishermen's Federation in the northern Chilean port city, Radio Bío-Bío reported that local fishers have not encountered Humboldt squid for three months, as Chinese vessels were suspected of disrupting the squid's migration toward the coast.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 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
Farmers, fishers, and field workers feel, see and live with the most severe impacts.
—Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 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
Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2025
Citing the Iquique Fishermen's Federation in the northern Chilean port city, Radio Bío-Bío reported that local fishers have not encountered Humboldt squid for three months, as Chinese vessels were suspected of disrupting the squid's migration toward the coast.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 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
Farmers, fishers, and field workers feel, see and live with the most severe impacts.
—Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fishers
fishermen
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Under the cover of night, a flotilla of boats, some of them commandeered from local fishermen, tried to cross the Dnipro and land on the embankment near the plant, according to three Ukrainian military officers involved in the planning and execution of the assault.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Voglers, both fishermen, then took the three individuals to Dillon Beach, where emergency responders were waiting for them.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Fishers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fishers. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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