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fishing

noun

The act of catching fish.

  • A good day's fishing

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"fishing" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an English verb that refers to the activity of attempting to catch fish (either for food or recreation), using a rod, line, and hook. You can use it in any context where it makes sense. For example: "I love going fishing because it's a great way to relax and enjoy spending time in nature."

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But the relative isolation this harsh landscape affords also means the fishing villages, hill villages and maritime towns built on and under these slopes have been able to hold on to their charm and beauty as stubbornly as they've clung on to the mountains on which they're so precariously built.

Two trawlers belonging to the Pileng fishing company were among the first to arrive at the scene after they received radio messages that the Dalny Vostok was sinking, general director Vasily Velmeskin told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The Dalny Vostok was built in what is now Ukraine in 1989 and was initially operated by the Soviet fishing ministry.

The Zodiacs took them to an old wooden fishing boat, perhaps 30 metres long.

He spent the next 17 hours there – approximately, as it was a windowless room and the lights were kept on overhead – while police attempted an interrogation he described as a fishing expedition.

The outbreak in Bombali was reportedly linked to a cluster of cases in the Aberdeen fishing community in Freetown, and the WHO said efforts were under way to track more than 2,000 contacts associated with that cluster.

It has swelled in size as residents who fled the recent war in the Congo start to return, to take up work in trade, fishing and gold mining, which is beginning to kick off in earnest.

Finally remembering he was also supposed to be injecting some humour into the occasion, he made a laboured fishing joke about Salmond and Sturgeon.

The intelligence agencies argue that a breach of privacy only happens when human eyeballs see the selected results, and that no fishing expeditions are allowed.

"Obviously fishing does still have an effect on the Great Barrier Reef but these green zones have taken the fish community back to pre-European times," he said.

Farron is understood to have written to the commission complaining that the newspaper embarked on a "fishing expedition" in which there was no justification for secretly recording MPs at their constituency surgeries.

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