The word 'fisherfolk' is a correct and usable term in written English
It is a gender-neutral term used to refer to a group of people who make a living by fishing. Example: The beach was bustling with fisherfolk, all heading out to sea in their boats to catch the day's haul.
When I first stumbled upon mangrove forests as a journalist in 1992, visiting several fishing communities along the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand, I noticed a common thread of problems faced by the fisherfolk: outside investors were ruining their lands and livelihoods by cutting mangroves to make way for shrimp farms, devastating their local fishery and agriculture.
"The sea is always with us here," says Mr Stockton, who lost a trawlerman brother to it and, as a boy, learned German and Danish from visiting foreign fisherfolk.
Even allowing for generous mark-ups by the middlemen, fisherfolk from developing countries can earn a great deal of money this way.
With schistosomiasis we found that fisherfolk, who are the most likely to be infected, were almost entirely absent from the disease programme and they're the ones defecating and urinating in the water, spreading the disease.It sounds as though you are constantly coming up against people who are well-intentioned.
He was intrigued by the life of the hardy fisherfolk of Cullercoats, who struggled against the sea to earn their livelihood, but he did not paint that struggle directly.
That change of scenery revolutionized his art: he turned to realistic and compassionate portrayals of the Dutch peasantry and fisherfolk (e.g., Waiting for the Herring Boats, 1875).
Fly Fishing A "Compleat Fly-Fishing Fair" is to be held on Saturday in Old Saybrook, presenting comprehensive information about the sport from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Experts will be on hand with lectures and demonstrations and members of fly-fishing clubs will take aspiring young fly-fisherfolk under their wings for instruction.
Damanik, the chairman of Kesatuan Nelayan Tradisional Indonesia (KNTI) – Indonesia's traditional fisherfolks' union – took his plight to meetings held by civil society organisations alongside the UN climate talks in Paris in December.
In Sindh, the fishermen, and also many farmers, oppose plans for more dams and irrigation projects on the Indus, and advocate turning to coal power rather than hydropower for Pakistan's electricity needs, Mr. Shah, the Fisherfolk Forum representative, said.
The lack of river water has allowed sea water to inundate some two million acres of the delta, destroying once fertile paddy fields and killing off coastal mangroves, which are the natural breeding ground for fish, say leaders of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, a nongovernmental organization that works to support the rights of the fishermen communities.
Floodwaters, with their nutrient-rich silt deposits, are critical to the survival of life on the delta and of fish stocks, said Gulab Shah, a social worker and district president of the Fisherfolk Forum in Thatta.
