List of fishing topics by subject

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to fishing:

Fishing – activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping.

Essence of fishing

* Fishing – trying to catch fish.
* Fishing industry – any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products.
* Fishing techniques – methods for catching fish, or methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs (shellfish, squid, octopus) and edible marine invertebrates.
* Fishing tackle – the equipment used by fishermen when fishing.
* Fishing vessel – a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river.
* Fisherman or fisher – someone (male or female) who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish, including recreational fishermen. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period. Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers.
* Recreational fishing or sport fishing – fishing for pleasure or competition.
* Environmental impact of fishing –

Fishing tackle

Fish hooks

* Fish hook – a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish.
* Circle hook – a type of fish hook which is sharply curved back in a circular shape.
* Hookset – a motion made with a fishing rod in order to "set" a fish hook into the mouth of a fish once it has bitten a fishing lure or bait.
* Fishing gaff – a pole with a sharp hook on the end that is used to stab a large fish and then lift the fish into the boat or onto shore.
* Sniggle – a type of fish hook used for catching eels, using the method of sniggling.

Fishing line

* Fishing line – a cord used or made for angling.
* Monofilament – fishing line made from a single fiber of plastic.
* Multifilament or ''The Super Lines'' – a type of fishing line.
* Braided – one of the earliest types of fishing line and, in its modern incarnations, is still very popular in some situations because of its high knot strength, lack of stretch, and great overall power in relation to its diameter.
* Power pro – a type of fishing line made out of a material called Spectra fibers.
* Swivel – a small device consisting of two rings connected to a pivoting joint.

Fishing sinker

* Fishing sinker or knoch – a weight used in conjunction with a fishing lure or hook to increase its rate of sink, anchoring ability, and/or casting distance.
* Sandsinker – lead-free fishing sinkers made of fabric and filled with sand.
* Downrigger – Aa device used while fishing using the trolling method, which places a lure at the desired depth.
* Bombarda – a type of weighted float used in rod and reel fishing.
* Arlesey Bomb – an angling weight developed by Richard Walker at the lake in Arlesey.

Fishing rod

* Fishing rod or fishing pole – a tool used to catch fish, usually in conjunction with the pastime of angling, and can also be used in competition casting.
* Fishing reel – a device attached to a fishing rode used to wind the line up.
* Bamboo fly rod, split cane rod, or cane – a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo.
* Fly rod building – constructing a fly fishing rod to match the performance desires of the individual angler.
* Fishing rod tapers – how much a fishing rod bends or flexes under pressure.

Fishing bait

* Fishing bait – any substance used to attract and catch fish.
* Bait fish – fish caught for use as bait to attract large predatory fish, particularly game fish.
* Groundbait – used in coarse fishing in order to attract fish to the fishing area.
* Chum – luring animals, usually fish or sharks, by throwing "chum" into the water.
* Clonk – a fishing tool used for catfish fishing, mainly in Europe.
* Worm compost – the product or process of composting utilizing various species of worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and earthworms to create a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and vermicast.
* Worm charming, worm grunting, or worm fiddling – attracting earthworms from the ground.
* Boilies

Soft plastic bait

* Plastic bait – Soft plastic bait, commonly known as just plastic bait, is any of a range of plastic-based fishing baits, termed so because of their soft, flexible rubber texture.
* Soft plastic bait – Soft plastic bait, commonly known as just plastic bait, is any of a range of plastic-based fishing baits, termed so because of their soft, flexible rubber texture.
* Plastic worm – A plastic worm is a plastic fishing lure, generally made to simulate an earthworm.
* Deadsticking – While fishing, generally for black bass, deadsticking is the act of presenting a soft plastic lure either by casting or a vertical drop and allowing the bait to remain motionless for an extended period time before retrieval.
* Texas rig – The Texas rig is a technique used for fishing with soft plastic lures.
* Carolina rig – The Carolina rig is a plastic bait rig similar to the Texas rig, but with the weight fixed above the hook, instead of sliding down to it.

Fishing lures

Fishing lure – type of artificial fishing bait which is designed to attract a fish's attention. The lure uses movement, vibration, flash and color to bait fish.
* Artificial fly – An artificial fly or fly lure is a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing.
* Fishing plug – Plugs are a popular type of hard-bodied fishing lure.
* Swimbait – Swimbaits are a loosely defined class of fishing lures that imitate fish and tend to be distinct in design from a typical crankbait.
* Hair rig – The hair rig is piece of fishing tackle which allows a bait to be presented without sitting directly on the hook.
* Little Cleo – The Little Cleo is a small spoon lure made by the Acme Tackle Company which comes in nine sizes from ¹⁄₁₆ oz to 1 ¹⁄₄ oz, and in many different color combinations.
* Mormyshka – Mormyshka is a sort of fishing lure or a jig.
* Original floater – The Original Floater is a wobbler type of fishing lure, manufactured by Rapala.
* Spinnerbait – A Spinnerbait refers to any one of a family of fishing lures that get their name from one or more metal blades shaped so as to spin like a propeller when the lure is in motion, creating varying degrees of flash and vibration that mimics small fish or other prey.
* Spin fishing – Spin fishing is an angling technique where a spinning lure is used to entice the fish to bite.
* Sabiki – A sabiki rig, sometimes called a piscatore rig, is a set of small lures typically used to catch fish that eat small prey.
* Jig fishing – Jigging is the practice of fishing with a jig, a type of fishing lure.
* Spoon lure – A spoon lure, in sport fishing, is an oblong, concave lure, usually of metal or shell, shaped like the bowl of a spoon.
* Spoonplug – A spoonplug is a form of fishing lure.
* Surface lure – A surface lure is a fishing lure designed to waddle, pop, lock, drop, pulse, twitch or fizz across the surface of the water as it is retrieved, and in doing so imitate surface prey for fish such as mice, lizards, frogs, cicadas, moths and small injured fish.
* Topwater lure – A Topwater fishing lure is a type of fishing lure, usually floating, that may be moved about the surface of water in order to attract and cause fish to attempt to strike the lure.
* Heddon – Heddon is a brand of artificial fishing lures created by James Heddon, who is credited with the invention of the first artificial fishing lures made of wood in the late 1890s.
* Zara Spook – Zara Spook 9260 is a topwater type fishing lure.

Bite indicators

Bite indicators –
* Fishing float – A float, also called a bobber, is a device used in angling that serves two main purposes: it can suspend the bait at a predetermined depth, and it can serve as a bite indicator.
* Shortfloating – Shortfloating is an angling method developed to increase the chances of catching a willing fish while decreasing the loss of terminal gear.
* Pellet waggler – A pellet waggler is a small, dumpy, float used for fishing.
* Quiver tip – A quiver tip is the top section, or tip, of the fishing rod which is designed to move, or quiver, when a fish bites.

Apparel etc.

* Hip boot – Hip boots, or waders as they are colloquially called, are a type of boot initially designed to be worn by river fishermen.
* Waders – Waders refers to a waterproof boot extending from the foot to the chest, traditionally made from vulcanised rubber, but available in more modern PVC, neoprene and Gore-Tex variants.
* Diving mask – A diving mask is an item of diving equipment that allows scuba divers, free-divers, and snorkelers to see clearly underwater.
* Creel – Creel is a type of small wicker basket mainly used by anglers to hold fish or other prey.
* Personal flotation device – A personal flotation device is a device designed to assist a wearer, either conscious or unconscious, to keep afloat.
* Wetsuit – A wetsuit is a garment, usually made of foamed neoprene, which is worn by surfers, divers, windsurfers, canoeists, and others engaged in water sports, providing thermal insulation, abrasion resistance and buoyancy.

Fishing techniques

* Gathering seafood by hand – Gathering seafood by hand can be as easy as picking shellfish or kelp up off the beach, or doing some digging for clams or crabs, or perhaps diving under the water for abalone or lobsters.
* Angling – Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle".
* Handline fishing
* Fishing net – A fishing net or fishnet is a net used for fishing.
* Fish trap – A fish trap is a trap used for fishing.
* spears – Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia.
* Trawling – Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.
* Other – A fishfinder is an instrument used to locate fish underwater by detecting reflected pulses of sound energy, as in SONAR.

Gathering

* Gathering seafood by hand – Gathering seafood by hand can be as easy as picking shellfish or kelp up off the beach, or doing some digging for clams or crabs, or perhaps diving under the water for abalone or lobsters.
* Clam digging – Clam digging is a common means of harvesting clams from below the surface of the tidal mud flats where they live.
* Pearl diving – Pearl hunting or pearl diving refers to an obsolete method of retrieving pearls from pearl oysters, freshwater pearl mussels and, on rare occasions, other nacre-producing molluscs, such as abalone.
* Ama divers – Japanese divers, famous for collecting pearls.
* Scallops – Scallop aquaculture is the commercial activity of cultivating scallops until they reach a marketable size and can be sold as a consumer product.
* Noodling – Noodling is fishing for catfish using only bare hands, practiced primarily in the southern United States.
* Trout tickling – Trout tickling is the art of rubbing the underbelly of a trout using fingers. If done properly, the trout will go into a trance-like state after a minute or so, and can then easily be thrown onto the nearest bit of dry land.
* Trout binning – Trout binning is a method of fishing, possibly fictional, described in the English periodical "The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction".
* Flounder tramping – Flounder tramping is a traditional method of catching flounder or other flat fish by wading in shallow water and standing on them.

Spears

* Spearfishing – Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia.
* Speargun – A speargun is an underwater fishing implement designed to fire a spear at fish.
* Polespear – A polespear is an underwater tool used in spearfishing, consisting of a pole, a spear tip, and a rubber loop.
* Bowfishing – Bowfishing is a method of fishing that uses specialized archery equipment to shoot and retrieve fish.
* Harpoon – A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or large marine mammals such as whales.
* Gigging – Gigging is the practice of hunting fish or small game with a gig or similar multi-pronged spear.
* Trident – A trident, also called a trishula or leister or gig, is a three-pronged spear.
* Hawaiian sling – The Hawaiian sling is a device used in spearfishing.

Lines

* Handline fishing – Handline fishing, or handlining, is fishing with a single fishing line which is held in the hands.
* Longline fishing – Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique. European Union
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* Trolling – method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water.
* Dropline – A dropline is a commercial fishing device, consisting of a long fishing line set vertically down into the water, with a series of fishing hooks attached to snoods.
* Trotline – A trotline is a heavy fishing line with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods.
* Jigging – Jigging is the practice of fishing with a jig, a type of fishing lure.
* Jiggerpole – A jiggerpole is a very long fishing pole that is used with a very short and very heavy line, usually a foot or less of 50 lbf test or heavier.

Nets

* Fishing net – A fishing net or fishnet is a net used for fishing.
* Cast net – A cast net, also called a throw net, is a net used for fishing.
* Chinese fishing net – The Chinese fishing nets are fishing nets that are fixed land installations for an unusual form of fishing — shore operated lift nets.
* Drift net – Drift netting is a fishing technique where nets, called drift nets, are allowed to float freely at the surface of a sea or lake.
* Ghost nets –
* Gill net – Gillnetting is a common fishing method used by commercial and artisanal fishermen of all the oceans and in some freshwater and estuary areas.
* Glass floats
* Hand net – A hand net, also called a scoop net, is a net or mesh basket held open by a hoop.
* Lampara net – Lampara nets are surround nets with the shape of a spoon or dust pan.
* Lampuki net – Lampuki is the Maltese name for the dorado or mahi-mahi, a kind of fish that migrates past the Maltese islands during the autumn.
* Lave net – A lave net is a type of fishing net used in river estuaries, particularly in the Severn Estuary in Wales and England to catch salmon.
* Surrounding net – A surrounding net is a fishing net which surrounds fish on the sides and underneath.
* Seine net – Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a seine or dragnet.
* Tangle net –
* Trawl net – Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.
* Turtle excluder device – A turtle excluder device or TED is a specialized device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fisherman's net.

Traps

* Fishing traps – A fish trap is a trap used for fishing.
* Fish wheel – A fish wheel is a device for catching fish which operates much as a water-powered mill wheel.
* Fishing weir – A fishing weir, or fish weir, is an obstruction placed in tidal waters or wholly or partially across a river, which is designed to hinder the passage of fish.
* Fishing basket – A fishing basket is a basket used for fishing.
* Crab trap – Crab traps are used to bait, lure, and catch crabs for commercial or recreational use.
* Eel buck – Eel bucks are a type of fish trap that was prevalent in the River Thames in England up to the 20th century.
* Lobster trap – A lobster trap or lobster pot is a portable trap that traps lobsters or crayfish and is used in lobster fishing.
* Putcher fishing – Putcher fishing is a type of fishing which employs a large number of putcher baskets, set in a fixed wooden frame, against the tide in a river estuary, notably on the River Severn, in England and South East Wales.
* Corf
* Trabucco
* Almadraba – Almadraba tuna is tuna caught by an elaborate and age-old Andalusian technique of setting nets in a maze that leads to a central pool called "copo".
* Double-Heart of Stacked Stones – The Double-heart of stacked stones or the Twin-Heart Fish Trap is a stone weir located on the north side of Cimei, an island in the Penghu archipelago to the west of Taiwan.

Other

* Fishfinder – A fishfinder is an instrument used to locate fish underwater by detecting reflected pulses of sound energy, as in SONAR.
* Fishing light attractor – A fishing light attractor is a fishing aid which uses lights attached to structure above water or suspended underwater to attract both fish and members of their food chain to specific areas in order to harvest them.
* Fish aggregating device – A fish aggregating device is a man-made object used to attract ocean-going pelagic fish such as marlin, tuna and mahi-mahi.
* Payaos – A payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines.
* Basnig – Basnig is a traditional fishing technique in the Philippines.
* Flossing – Flossers are anglers who use the method of "bottom bouncing" to catch fish.
* Ice fishing – Ice fishing is the practice of catching fish with lines and fish hooks or spears through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water.
* Cormorant fishing – Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing method in which fishermen use trained cormorants to fish in rivers.
* Kite fishing
* Electrofishing – uses electricity to stun fish before they are caught.
* Shrimp baiting – Shrimp baiting is a method used by recreational fisherman for of catching shrimp.
* Dredging – A fishing dredge, also known as a scallop dredge, oyster dredge, etc., is a kind of dredge which is towed along the bottom of the sea by a fishing boat in order to collect a targeted edible bottom-dwelling species.
* Muro-ami – The muro-ami fishing technique, employed on coral reefs in Southeast Asia, uses an encircling net together with pounding devices.
* Explosives – Blast fishing or dynamite fishing is the practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection.
* Cyanide fishing – Cyanide fishing is a method of collecting live fish mainly for use in aquariums, which involves spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the desired fish's habitat in order to stun the fish.
* Fish toxins – Fish toxins or fish stupefying plants have historically been used by many hunter gatherer cultures to ''stun'' fish, so that the fish become easy to collect by hand.

Fishing vessels

* Fishing vessel – A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river.
* Traditional boats – The coble is a type of open traditional fishing boat which developed on the North East coast of England.
* Fishing trawler – A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.
* Seiner – Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a seine or dragnet.
* Drifter –
* Longliner – Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique.
* Factory ship – A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish.
* Fishing fleet – A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels.
* Research vessel – A research vessel is a ship designed and equipped to carry out research at sea.
* Whalers – Whalers may refer to:
* Deadliest Catch – ''Deadliest Catch'' is a documentary/reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel.

Traditional fishing boats

* Traditional fishing boats
* Bawley – A Bawley was an English sailing vessel typified by a boomless cutter rig and probably named for having a boiler for cooking shrimp in amidships.
* Bokkura – Bokkura is the smallest sailing vessel used in Maldives.
* caïque –
* Cape Islander – A Cape Island style fishing boat is an inshore motor fishing boat found across Atlantic Canada having a single keeled flat bottom at the stern and more rounded towards the bow.
* Coble – The coble is a type of open traditional fishing boat which developed on the North East coast of England.
* Coracle – The coracle is a small, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales but also in parts of Western and South Western England, Ireland, and Scotland; the word is also used of similar boats found in India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet.
* Couta – A couta boat is a type of boat sailed in Victoria, Australia, around Sorrento and Queenscliff and along Victoria's west coast as far west as Portland.
* Currach – A Currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is more usual.
* Dogger – The dogger was a form of fishing boat, developed during the seventeenth century, that commonly operated in the North Sea.
* Dhoni – Dhoni or Doni is a multi-purpose sail boat with a motor or lateen sails that is used in the Maldives.
* Dugout – A dugout or dugout canoe is a boat made from a hollowed tree trunk.
* falkusa – A falkusa is a traditional fishing boat used by fishermen from the town of Komiža on the Adriatic island of Vis, Croatia.
* Felucca – A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean including Malta, and particularly along the Nile in Egypt, Sudan, and also in Iraq.
* Fifie – The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland.
* Friendship sloop – The Friendship sloop, also known as a Muscongus Bay sloop or lobster sloop, is a style of gaff-rigged sloop that originated in Friendship, Maine around 1880.
* Galway hooker – The Galway hooker is a traditional fishing boat used in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland.
* Herring buss – A herring buss was a type of seagoing fishing vessel, used by Dutch and Flemish herring fishermen in the 15th through early 19th centuries.
* Jangada – A Jangada is a traditional fishing boat made of wood used in the northern region of Brazil.
* Jukung – A jukung or canoe is a small wooden Indonesian boat.
* Kolae – A Kolae boat is a traditional fishing boat used in the lower southern provinces of Thailand.
* Lugger – A lugger is a class of boats, widely used as traditional fishing boats, particularly off the coasts of France, England and Scotland.
* Luzzu – A luzzu is a traditional fishing boat from the Maltese islands.
* Mackinaw – The Mackinaw boat is a loose term for a light, open sailboat used in the interior of North America during the fur trading era.
* Monterey clipper – The Monterey Clipper is a fishing boat common to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area and east to the Sacramento delta.
* Nobby – The nobby is an inshore sailing boat which was used as a traditional fishing boat around Lancashire and the Isle of Man.
* Nordland – The Nordland boat, is a type of fishing boat that has been used for centuries in northern counties of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark of Norway and derives its name from Nordland county where it has a long history.
* Pirogue – A pirogue is a small, flat-bottomed boat of a design associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh.
* Poveiro – The Poveiro is a genre of fishing vessel, for coastal and deep sea fishing, mostly used in Northern Portugal from the Douro river till Galicia by the people of Póvoa de Varzim, its fisher colonies along the coast, and related communities in Northern Portugal.
* Reed boat – Reed boats and rafts, along with dugout canoes and other rafts, are among the oldest known types of boats.
* Sampan – A sampan is a relatively flat bottomed Chinese wooden boat from long.
* Sgoth – A Sgoth or ''Sgoth Niseach'' is a traditional type of clinker built skiff with a dipping lug rig and a Lateen style sail built mainly in Ness.
* Shad boat – The shad boat is a traditional fishing boat which was proclaimed the Official State Historic Boat of North Carolina by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1987.
* Sixareen – The sixareen or sixern is a traditional fishing boat used around the Shetland Islands.
* Smack – A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of England and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century, and even in small numbers up to the Second World War.
* Sneakbox – A sneakbox is a small boat that can be sailed, rowed, poled or sculled.
* Well smack – A well smack is a type of traditional fishing boat that has a ''well'' amidships.
* Yawl – A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mast located well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom, specifically aft of the rudder post.
* Yoal – The Yoal, often referred to as the Ness Yoal, is a clinker built craft used traditionally in the Shetland Islands.

The dory

* Dory – The dory is a small, shallow-draft boat, about long.
* Banks dory – The Banks dory, also known as the Grand Banks dory, is the most common variation of the family of boats known as dories.
* Cape Ann dory – The Cape Ann dory is a traditional fishing boat, a variant of the beach dory or Swampscott dory.
* Gloucester dory – The Gloucester dory is a variant of the Banks dory, a type of narrow-bottomed, slab-sided boat, common in the North Eastern United States.
* McKenzie River dory – The McKenzie dory or Rogue River dory also called by many a Drift Boat is an evolution of the open-water dory, converted for use in rivers.
* Swampscott dory – The Swampscott dory is a traditional fishing boat, used during the middle of the 19th century by fishing villages along the coast of Massachusetts.

Oyster boats

* Bugeye –
* Deadrise – The Chesapeake Bay deadrise is a type of traditional fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay.
* Log canoe – The log canoe is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay region.
* Pungy – The pungy is a type of schooner developed in and peculiar to the Chesapeake Bay region.
* Schooners – Oyster schooners are a type of traditional fishing boat specifically designed for the harvesting of oysters.
* Sharpie – Sharpies are a type of hard chined sailboat with a flat bottom, extremely shallow draft, centerboards and straight, flaring sides.
* Skipjack – The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging.

Recreational fishing boats

* Bass boat – A bass boat is a small boat that is designed and equipped primarily for bass fishing or fishing for other panfish, usually in freshwater such as lakes, rivers and streams.
* Farley – Farley Boats set the standard along the Gulf Coast for fishing and sport from 1915 to the mid-1970s.

History of fishing

* Traditional fishing boats
* Chasse-marée – specific, archaic type of decked commercial sailing vessel.
* Fishing in Cornwall – Fishing in Cornwall has traditionally been one of the main elements of the economy.
* Scottish east coast fishery – The Scottish east coast fishery has been in existence for more than a thousand years, spanning the Viking period right up to the present day.
* Garum – Garum, similar to liquamen, was a condiment
* Munster pilchard fishery 1570–1750
* Fishery Protection Squadron – The Fishery Protection Squadron is a front-line squadron of the Royal Navy with responsibility for patrolling the UK's Extended Fisheries Zone.
* Pearling in Western Australia – Pearling in Western Australia existed well before European settlement.
* Scania Market – The Scania Market was a major fish market for herring which took place annually in Scania during the Middle Ages.
* Harold Innis and the cod fishery – Harold Adams Innis was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communication theory.
* Fishing stage – wooden vernacular building, typical of the rough traditional buildings associated with the cod fishery in Newfoundland, Canada.

Conflicts

* Bering Sea Arbitration – The Bering Sea Arbitration arose out of a fishery dispute between Great Britain and the United States in the 1880s which was closed by this arbitration in 1893.
* Korean maritime border incidents (crab wars)
* Cod wars – The Cod Wars, also called the Icelandic Cod Wars, were a series of confrontations in the 1950s and 1970s between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights in the North Atlantic.
* Newlyn riots – The Newlyn riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK on the three days beginning 18 May 1896; it arose from the local fishery and the trade in fish.
* Shetland bus – The Shetland Bus was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Shetland, Scotland, and German-occupied Norway from 1941 until the German occupation ended on 8 May 1945.
* Turbot War – The Turbot War of 1995 was an international fishing dispute between Canada, and Spain in which Canada stopped a Galician fishing trawler in international waters and arrested its crew.

Disasters and memorials

* Stotfield fishing disaster – The Stotfield fishing disaster was the first of several fishing disasters of the 19th century on the east coast of Scotland.
* Eyemouth disaster – The Eyemouth disaster was a severe European windstorm that struck the southern coast of Scotland, United Kingdom, specifically Berwickshire, on 14 October 1881.
* Moray Firth fishing disaster – The Moray Firth fishing disaster of August 1848 was one of the worst fishing disasters in maritime history on the east coast of Scotland, and was caused by a severe storm that struck the Moray Firth.
* 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster – The Morecambe Bay cockling disaster occurred on the evening of 5 February 2004 at Morecambe Bay in North West England, when at least 21 cockle pickers were drowned by an incoming tide off the Lancashire/Cumbrian coast.
* 1959 Escuminac hurricane – The 1959 Escuminac Hurricane was one of the deadliest Canadian hurricanes.
* Steveston Fisherman's Memorial – The Steveston Fisherman's Memorial is a freestanding memorial commemorating the lives and deaths of fishermen working out of Steveston, British Columbia.

Historic fishing culture

Historic fishing villages

* Fishing village – A fishing village is a village, usually located near a fishing ground, with an economy based on catching fish and harvesting seafood.
* Traditional fishing villages –
** Akwidaa – Akwidaa is a fishing village in the Western Region of south-west Ghana, and is one of the southernmost places in Ghana.
** Algajola – Algajola is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
** Ardglass –
** Bermeo – Bermeo is a Spanish town and municipality in the sub-region of Busturialdea.
** Bethsaida
** Bolungarvík – Bolungarvík is a fishing village and municipality in the North-West of Iceland, located at the Vestfirðir peninsula, approximately 14 kilometres from the town of Ísafjörður and 473 km from the capital city Reykjavík.
** Cadgwith – Cadgwith is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
** Catalan Bay – Catalan Bay is a small bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from the main city.
** Ciboure – Ciboure is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
** Clovelly – Clovelly is a village in the Torridge district of Devon, England.
** Cullercoats – Cullercoats is an urban area of north east England, with a population 9,407 in 2004.
** Dunmore East – Dunmore East is a popular tourist and fishing village in County Waterford, Ireland.
** Ea, Biscay – Ea is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in Spain.
** Elantxobe – Elantxobe is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
** Findon – Findon or Finnan is a fishing village eight miles south of Aberdeen, famous for originating the smoked haddock known as Finnan haddie.
** Getaria – Getaria is a coastal town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain.
** Guéthary – Guéthary is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
** Gilleleje – Gilleleje is a town in Denmark with a population of 6,491.
** Grip – Grip is an archipelago, a deserted fishing village, and a former municipality about northwest of the city of Kristiansund.
** Gümüşlük – Gümüşlük, a seaside village and fishing port in Turkey, is situated on the remains of the ancient city of Myndos.
** Hondarribia – Hondarribia is a town situated on the west shore of Bidasoa river's mouth, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
** Hovden – fishing community in Bø municipality in Nordland county, Norway.
** Huanchaco – Huanchaco beach is a summer vacation spot located in the northern city of Trujillo, Peru.
** Kaunolu Village – Kaunolū Village Site is located on the south coast of the island of Lānaʻi.
** Ladner – Ladner was created as a fishing village on the banks of the Fraser River.
** Lamorna – Lamorna is a fishing village and cove in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.
** Lekeitio – Lekeitio is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Basque Country, 53 km northeast from Bilbao.
** Marsaxlokk – Marsaxlokk is a traditional fishing village located in the south-eastern part of Malta, with a population of 3,277 people.
** Moskenes – Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.
** Mundaka – Mundaka is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
** Mutriku – Mutriku is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country in northern Spain.
** Newhaven – Newhaven is a district in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, between Leith and Granton.
** Nyksund – Nyksund is a coastal village in Vesterålen, northern Norway.
** Old Perlican
** Ondarroa – Ondarroa is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
** Ona – Ona is a village and an island group located in the municipality of Sandøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
** Orio – Orio is a fishing town located in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain, with the town nucleus lying on the river Oria, roughly one mile away from its mouth by the Bay of Biscay.
** Pasaia – Pasaia is a town and municipality located in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community of northern Spain.
** Peggys Cove – Peggys Cove, also known as Peggy's Cove from 1961 to 1976, is a small rural community located on the eastern shore of St.
** Pittenweem – Pittenweem is a small and secluded fishing village and civil parish tucked in the corner of Fife on the east coast of Scotland.
** Plentzia – Plentzia is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, in northern Spain.
** Po Toi O – Po Toi O is a small fishing village
** Polperro – Polperro is a village and fishing harbour on the south-east Cornwall coast in South West England, UK, within the civil parish of Lansallos.
** Port Isaac – Port Isaac a.k.a.
** Portmahomack – Portmahomack is a small fishing village in Easter Ross, Scotland.
** Portavogie