Talk:Fisherman

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[edit] Gender issues

True or false: unlike "fireman", "policeman", and "mailman", which are now replaced by "fire fighter", "police officer", and "mail carrier", "fisherman" is still commonly accepted generically. 66.32.66.181 14:12, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

    • In Britain mail is delivered by postmen. Anthony Appleyard 12:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • In real-world talk, a fisherman is still a fisherman. A fisher is a USA mustelid animal. Political correctness gets sillier and sillier and more and more dictatorial. Although I tend to restrict the word "fisherman" to men who have to do it every day in all weathers for a living; to me a sport angler is a sport angler. Anthony Appleyard 12:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
    • The PC term for fisherman on the east coast of Canada is "Fish-Harvester", though this is seldom used throughout fishing communities. The DFO(Department of Fisheries and Oceans) uses this term whenever giving out official documents.

[edit] Please Someone Add to this

  • This article should be a basic commodity, it desperately needs to be edited. User:66.32.66.181 14:12, 16 May 2004
  • There is FAR more about inshore and deep-water work fishermen that could be included here. Are there any work fishermen's email groups that could be asked to add to Wikipedia? (Please put sport angling stuff in angler or angling.) Anthony Appleyard 12:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The second-oldest line of work that still exists?

In the introductory part, is says that "Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period." I think that would make it the second-oldest line of work that exists and has done so continuously since it was first carried out by humans. The oldest would be gathering (not of fish, but of plants), which is still practiced for a living by some hunter-gatherers. I'm not a fisherman, but I think this is worth noting. --Tracerbullet11 (talk) 18:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Move

I propose a move to

Fisher people

.68.148.164.166 (talk) 10:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)