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Frank Kelty

He is arguably still one of the most influential persons within both the business and the governmental circles of Dutch Harbor/Unalaska, which is not only the largest municipality of the Aleutian Islands, but also the largest commercial fishing port of the United States.

Wedderburn, Oregon

Wedderburn was founded by R. D. Hume, a prominent local businessman in the fishing industry, who named the community after the home of his ancestors, Wedderburn Castle in Scotland.


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1998 Pacific typhoon season

Throughout Sōya Subprefecture, agricultural and fishing industry losses amounted to 23.1 million yen ($171,213 USD).

Bass Masters Classic: Pro Edition

It contained real companies in the fishing industry (i.e. Ranger Boats, Evinrude Outboard Motors, etc.) The game had two modes where the player fished as an amateur and competed against other amateurs.

Galali

Before the discovery of oil in Bahrain, most of the villagers were seamen, involved in the pearl diving and fishing industry.

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.

Lumpsucker

The lumpsucker Cyclopterus lumpus plays an important role in the Icelandic fishing industry; Lotna ehf, a fishing company partly owned by Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, have recorded catches of lumpfish as large as 2 tonnes.

Northumberland County, Virginia

It is named for Captain Elijah W. Reed (1827-1888), who is credited with bringing the menhaden fishing industry and the tremendous wealth that resulted from it to Reedville –– and Northumberland County in general.

Rausu, Hokkaido

The main intake by the fishing industry consists of kichiji rockfish (Sebastolobus macrochir), Alaska Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), konbu kelp, salmon, squid, and sea urchin.

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.

Sigla himinfley

The series takes place in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and follows the lives of an influential family in the fishing industry.

The Irish Skipper

They also run The Irish Skipper Expo, a trade show aimed at the fishing industry's under 20m sector, held annually in Galway and launched Workboat Ireland in October 2008, another trade show dedicated to the workboat sector and held in Kinsale.

The Maritimes

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Zarzal

Some 200 square kilometres are used for cattle raising and 0.1 km² for a small industrial fishing industry which produces tilapia, cachama, peacock bass and bocachico.