Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetland
Stilts fishermen, Sri Lanka
Fishing with nets, Mexico
Fishing tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic period
Painting of A Brixham trawler by William Adolphus Knell. The painting is now in the National Maritime Museum.
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.
A Belgian fisherman in the British Fishing Village of Brixham, Devon in 1944
The fisherman – by Charles Napier Hemy, 1888
A fisherman and his catch, including small sharks, hooked on hand lines miles offshore in the Seychelles
A Royal Air Force search and rescue Sea King helicopter comes to the aid of the French fishing vessel Alf during a storm in the Irish Sea.