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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 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.
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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
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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Foreign Minister Yván Gil said 18 armed personnel remained on the boat for eight hours, disrupting the work of nine fishermen before their release under the escort of the Venezuelan navy.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Sports fishermen and dedicated divers still come here in droves—and many travelers opt to take a catamaran expedition to the pristine, protected Islands of Loreto that sit just offshore.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Fishers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fishers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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