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Fisher is an archaic term for a
fisherman A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. Worldwide, there are about 38 million Commercial fishing, commercial and Artisan fishing, subsistence fishers and Fish farming, fi ...
, revived as gender-neutral. Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to:


Places


Australia

* Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland * Electoral district of Fisher, a state electoral district in South Australia * Fisher, Australian Capital Territory * Fisher, Queensland, a suburb in the City of Mount Isa * Fisher, South Australia, a locality * Hundred of Fisher, a cadastral unit in South Australia


Canada

* Rural Municipality of Fisher * Fisher (electoral district), a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada


United Kingdom

* Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast


United States

* Fisher, Arkansas * Fisher, Illinois * Fisher, Louisiana *
Fisher, Minnesota Fisher is a town in Polk County, Minnesota, Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks, North Dakota, Grand Forks-North Dakota, ND-Minnesota, MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 422 at the 2020 United ...
* Fisher, Missouri * Fisher, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Fisher, Pennsylvania * Fisher, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *
Fisher Island, Florida Fisher Island is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name. Since 2015, Fisher Island has had the highest per capita income of any place in the United States. It is locat ...
* Fishers, Indiana * Fishers, New York * Fishers Island, New York


Archaeological sites

* Fisher site, an archaeological site in Greene County, Pennsylvania * Fisher Farm site, an archaeological site in the Centre County, Pennsylvania


Law

* ''Fisher v. University of Texas'' (2013), a 2013 Supreme Court case * ''Fisher v. University of Texas'' (2016), a 2016 Supreme Court case


Organizations

* Fisher Body, a former automobile coachbuilder * Max M. Fisher College of Business, part of the Ohio State University * Fisher Communications * Fisher F.C., a football club in England * Fisher Electronics, a Sanyo subsidiary producing hi-fi equipment ** The Fisher (electronics manufacturer), a line of electronics marketed by Avery Fisher and predecessor to Fisher Electronics * Fisher House Foundation, an organization funding the construction of family lodging facilities near military hospitals


People

* Fisher (surname), an English surname *
Fisher (musician) Paul Nicholas Fisher (born 5 November 1985), known by the stage name Fisher (stylised in all caps), is an Australian music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including ARIA Music Awards, Grammy Awards and Ranked the No. 8 on to ...
, Australian house music producer * Fisher Ames (1758–1808), American politician * Fisher A. Blocksom (1782–1876), American politician and lawyer from Ohio * Fisher Stevens (born 1963), American actor, director, producer and writer * Sergey Golovkin (1959–1996), Russian serial killer known as "The Fisher"


Science and mathematics

*Fisher meteorite of 1894, which landed in Minnesota, United States (see meteorite falls) * Fisher's exact test, a statistical significance test * Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test * Fisher equation, in financial mathematics and economics, concerning interest rates * Fisher transformation, a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses


Other uses

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Fisher (animal) The fisher (''Pekania pennanti'') is a carnivorous mammal native to North America, a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the taiga, boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States. It is a member of the Mustelidae, mustel ...
(''Pekania pennanti''), a North American mustelid * Fisher (band), a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer * ''Fisher'' (comic strip), a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street * Fisher (yachts), motorsailers first built in the 1970s *" Fisherrr", song by Cash Cobain and Bay Swag


See also

* Fisher Island (disambiguation) * Fisherman (disambiguation) *
Fishery Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a., fishing grounds). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish far ...
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Kingfisher Kingfishers are a family, the Alcedinidae, of small to medium-sized, brightly coloured birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species living in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania, ...
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