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5 unusual facts about Fishing


CPNT

Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition (French: Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions, abbreviated as CPNT), an agrarianist French political party.

Hooked! Real Motion Fishing

This game was developed by SIMS, the developer of several fishing games including Sega Marine Fishing, the Dreamcast version of Sega Bass Fishing, and Top Angler: Real Bass Fishing.

Jonathan Obika

He took part in numerous local Fishing competitions during his time at Yeovil Town, he won catch of the day in the Bream category in April 2009, and Pete Coombes, the lake owner at Yeovil & Sherborne Angling Association, said he was one of the most talented young fisherman he had seen at the Angling Club for many years.

Reel Fishing III

Reel Fishing and Reel Fishing II were followed by Reel Fishing III, the last console game of the series for the PlayStation series, but it went on to have some games on the PSP and a game on a Nintendo console.

San Marcos, Baja California Sur

Fishing is the main attraction, being roughly in the middle of the Sea of Cortés.


1993 Kagoshima Heavy Rain

In the Ryugamizu area, where mountains were close to the sea, and highways and railroads are situated, 22 debris flows occurred and 2500 people were trapped in 1200 cars, as well as buses and trains, until they were saved by fishing boats and ferrys which carried them to Kagoshima city through Kagoshima Bay.

2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident

The 2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident occurred on March 2, 2011 Taean County at 3 pm at 64 miles southwest off Gyeongryeolbi island between People’s Republic of China fishing boats and the South Korea Coast guard.

Anglers Rest, Victoria

The name Anglers Rest is descriptive, indicating that the location is a good spot for anglers, being close to the confluence of several noted trout fishing rivers, the Cobungra River, the Bundara River, the Big River, and the Mitta Mitta River.

Attilly

Villeveque in the west with the villa of the Prince of Monaco, ponds for fishing, and the mill (where it is possible to learn to swim)

Ballyfinboy River

An electric fishing survey of the river at Ballinderry was conducted in September 2012 by Inland Fisheries Ireland.

Bernie Maher

He holds coaching and instructor qualifications for the Association of Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors (AAPGAI), the American Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) and Advanced Professional Game Angling Qualifications (APGAI) in Trout and Salmon and offers private and group tuition at Press Manor Fishing Lakes, the complex of Trout, Coarse and Carp lakes he owns in Ashover (near Chesterfield and Matlock).

Binic

The port annually receives 150 to 160 ships and the activity was divided between fishing in Newfoundland and cabotage (imported salt, wine, wood North, flour and vegetables).

Catalan Bay

They were required to have a fishing permit granted to them by the Governor and only a limited number of permits were issued.

Catboat

Historically, they were used for fishing and transport in the coastal waters around Cape Cod, Narragansett Bay, New York and New Jersey.

Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum

It is a sister museum to Italy’s International Museum of Fly Fishing, Stanislao Kuckiewicz in Castel di Sangro.

Charles Bellamy

Bellamy's career first began during the summer of 1717 when he raided three ships off the coast of both New England and New Brunswick, before sailing northwards to establish a fortified encampment somewhere in the Bay of Fundy (most likely Saint Andrew's where he continued attacking fishing and raiding ships off the southern coast of Newfoundland.

Charles Wellington Furse

Such are the Diana of the Uplands, the Lord Roberts and The Return from the Ride at the Tate Gallery; the four children in the Cubbing with the York and Ainsty, The Lilac Gown, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fishing and the portraits of Lord Charles Beresford and William Johnson Cory.

Claddaghduff

Claddaghduff is known for its deep sea angling, lake fishing, boat trips to Inishturk and Inishbofin, pony trekking, pitch & putt, dive sites, beaches and historical tours.

Coral reef protection

Inhabitants of Ahus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, have followed a generations-old practice of restricting fishing in six areas of their reef lagoon.

Dago Creek

The name derives from the numerous Sicilian fishermen who would anchor in the protected waters during closed fishing periods and collectively celebrate their heritage with plenty of food and wine.

Dalkey Island

The island is also an ideal spot for fishing, with Pollock, Coalfish, Wrasse and Mackerel being caught.

Dent, Cumbria

Whilst fishing on the Dee at Dentdale in the 1840s, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong saw a waterwheel in action, supplying power to a marble quarry.

Dropline

The Australian Marine Conservation Society rates dropline fishing as having a "moderate impact" on wildlife and a "low impact" on marine habitats.

Dungarvon River

The river is noted for Atlantic salmon fishing, and is immortalized by the legend of the Dungarvon Whooper and in the Brennen Siding Trilogy by Canadian writer Herb Curtis.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

Green Head, Western Australia

Green Head has numerous vantage points for beach fishing, where catches include whiting, herring, tailor, skippy, and cobbler.

Greifensee, Zürich

The excellent condition of the timber relicts allows dendrochronological dating to the year 1051 B.C. Weaving spindles made of clay, tools, needles and fishing hooks from bronze, charred wild apples and cereals have been conserved.

Guy Cotten

In 1964, Cotten started to sell clothes for commercial fishing at the harbour of Concarneau, and decided to launch his own workshop in order to create lighter and more resistant oilskins.

Hallsands

Written by Will Todd and Ben Dunwell, Whirlwind tells the story of Hallsands, a small fishing community thriving under the shadow of Start Point at the start of the 20th century.

Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves

On 21 December 1940, he set sail from Newlyn to Plogoff in Brittany on a fishing boat, the Marie-Louise, along with his 20-year-old radio operator Alfred Gaessler, a German-speaking Alsatian, codenamed Georges Marty.

History of nationality in Gibraltar

There was a Genoese population of fishermen who came to Gibraltar since 1840 for the fishing season and would build temporary shelters or live in caves, and by the 1878 census, they had established a permanent village at Catalan Bay.

I Am the Mob

The video was directed by Kevin Allen, director of Twin Town and was filmed in the highlands of Scotland, showing the band playing with toy boats and fishing.

Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat

On Apr. 8, 2013, BRP Romblon (SARV 3503) was deployed when a Chinese fishing vessel ran aground in Tubbataha Reef.

Jacques Colaert

Over the next several days, other fishing fleets were targeted by the privateers including a fleet of thirteen vessels escorted by the Dutch warship De Victorie from Maassluis.

Jandía

In the northwestern coast, Jandía has a small fishing village of Cofete and further up, the Villa Winter (pronunciation: VEEN-ter) (named after Gustav Winter) is near the mountain.

Jarvis Walker

Founded in Balwyn, Victoria in 1946 making it one of the oldest family owned fishing companies in Australia.

Jeremy Wade

Wade's interest in fishing began when he was a child living in East Anglia, on the banks of the Suffolk Stour.

Joan Eardley

In the early 1950s while convalescing from mumps Eardley was taken by a friend to visit Catterline, a small fishing village near Stonehaven, then in Kincardineshire (now Aberdeenshire).

John Nutt

He soon organized a small crew with whom he seized a small French fishing boat as well as two other French ships (another account claims the ships were English and Flemish) during the summer of 1621 before returning to the western coast of England.

Lew Dietz

Reissued in 1998, the book combines Dietz's words with Kosti Ruohomaa's (1914-1961) black and white photographs of ordinary rural and fishing industry Mainers.

Lot's Ait

It was once known as Barbel Island, as this was a particularly fruitful area for fishing.

Michael Ancher

A group of artists had congregated to form the Skagen Painters in Skagen, a small fishing village in the north of Denmark, situated where the Baltic and North Sea converge.

Mouse catshark

Although it is caught incidentally by commercial trawl fisheries, this species does not appear to be threatened by fishing activities and has been listed under Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Otter Falls, Yukon

Accessible via the Aishihik Road (see Yukon roads, miscellaneous ), the site of the falls has long been visited by lovers of the outdoors due to its picturesque nature, bird life (American Dipper and Harlequin Duck amongst others) and sport fishing opportunities.

Oxbow Regional Park

The two-day event draws up to 10,000 visitors who can see spawning salmon; enjoy music, food, art, storytelling, and a fish maze; and encounter a variety of traditional activities and cultural exhibits at Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum village hosted by the fishing tribes of the Columbia Basin, including the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, and Warm Springs tribes.

Pansipit River

In 1941 fishing in the river and its surrounding waters was banned with a 5-year closed season by the then Commonwealth of the Philippines.

Pearl hunting

Journey Around Parthia by Isidore of Charax, a 1st-century geographer from the city of Charax on the northern end of the Persian Gulf, deals with the subject of pearl fishing.

Pine Lake, Georgia

The corporation sold lots around a small fishing lake to Atlantans who lived in (then) faraway areas like Buckhead for use as a weekend retreat.

Port of Deauville

The large town's position on the estuary of the River Touques was ideal for the establishment of a constructed harbour to supplement the fishing docks of Trouville-sur-Mer.

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Roue

William James Roué (1879–1970), naval architect famous for his design of the Bluenose fishing schooner

Rudolf Koppitz

While working in Vienna early in his career, Koppitz photographed many of the picturesque aspects of the city - St. Stephen's Cathedral, Karl's Church - and traveled to photograph Hungarian villages, fishing boats near Delft, views of Dresden and alpine landscapes.

Shining Life Children's Trust

After the 2004 Tsunami, the trust worked with a fishing community in Talawatta, which had been directly affected by the disaster.

SKS

Many military surplus Soviet SKS were converted into hunting weapons by the "Hammer" factory in Vyatskiye Polyany (Russian: Вятско-Полянский машиностроительный завод «Молот»); these were labeled OP (OP = охотничье-промысловый, "hunting and fishing").

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest is a soundtrack by The Flaming Lips to the Bradley Beesley fishing documentary Okie Noodling, featuring three country-tinged songs not found elsewhere, two of which are instrumentals.


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