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  2. Fishing sinker - Wikipedia

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    A fishing sinker or plummet is a weight used in conjunction with a fishing lure or hook to increase its rate of sink, anchoring ability, and/or casting distance. Fishing sinkers may be as small as 1 gram (0.035 oz) for applications in shallow water, and even smaller for fly fishing applications, or as large as several pounds (>1 kg) or ...

  3. Fishing tackle - Wikipedia

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    Almost any equipment or gear used in fishing can be called fishing tackle, examples being hooks, lines, baits / lures, rods, reels, floats, sinkers / feeders, nets, spears, gaffs and traps, as well as wires, snaps, beads, spoons, blades, spinners, clevises and tools that make it easy to tie knots.

  4. Fishing net - Wikipedia

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    Fishing nets have been used widely in the past, including by stone age societies. The oldest known fishing net is the net of Antrea, found with other fishing equipment in the Karelian town of Antrea, Finland, in 1913. The net was made from willow, and dates back to 8300 BC. [1] Recently, fishing net sinkers from 27,000 BC were discovered in ...

  5. Glass float - Wikipedia

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    Glass floats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.

  6. Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision - Wikipedia

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    Within five seconds Ehime Maru lost power and began to sink. As Waddle watched through Greeneville 's periscope, Ehime Maru stood almost vertically on its stern and sank in about five minutes as the people on the fishing ship scrambled to abandon ship.

  7. Neversink River - Wikipedia

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    174 cu ft/s (4.9 m 3 /s) The Neversink River (also called Neversink Creek in its upper course) is a 55-mile-long (89 km) [1] tributary of the Delaware River in southeastern New York in the United States. The name of the river comes from the corruption of an Algonquian language phrase meaning "mad river."

  8. Fishing techniques - Wikipedia

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    Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearfishing, netting, angling and trapping. Recreational, commercial and artisanal fishers use different techniques, and also, sometimes, the same techniques. Recreational fishers fish for pleasure or sport, while commercial fishers fish for profit.

  9. Fish aggregating device - Wikipedia

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    A fish aggregating (or aggregation) device ( FAD) is a man-made object used to attract pelagic fish such as marlin, tuna and mahi-mahi (dolphin fish). They usually consist of buoys or floats tethered to the ocean floor. Various types of FADs have been employed in the traditional fishing cultures of Island Southeast Asia (especially in the ...

  10. Sea of Galilee Boat - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Galilee Boat, also known as the Jesus Boat, is an ancient fishing boat from the 1st century AD, discovered in 1986 on the north-west shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The remains of the boat, 27 feet (8.2 meters) long, 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) wide and with a maximum preserved height of 4.3 feet (1.3 meters), first appeared during ...

  11. USS Archerfish (SS-311) - Wikipedia

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    Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao -class submarine. She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.