Up until the second world war all the destructive ideas, such as beam trawling, came out of the North Sea, it was the most competitive fishing ground, bordered by so many major fishing nations.
We are heading for Jengo's, a beach break at the far end of a Christian fishing community bordered on one side by a lagoon and the other by the ocean.
And L'Estaque, the old fishing town bordering Marseille where Cézanne escaped to avoid the draft in the Franco-Prussian War and later stashed his wife and son to keep his father from finding out about them.
This new no-kill stretch may do much to ease the discomfort of April angling on the Beaverkill: when fishing waters bordered by the Petersen holdings, one would only be a short haul from the just-renovated Tavern's brass rail bar and restaurant.
On South Padre Island, a popular vacation spot near Brownsville less than an hour's drive from the Mexican border, fishing dominates the talk and the tone of the town, and nearly everyone, from the justice of the peace who presided over the Nice Tails arraignments to the two sisters who co-own BadaBing Bagels on Padre Boulevard, knows how to handle a rod and reel.
But it does appear to have caught a motorcycle gang telling members to obey laws, suspicious fishing at the border, and Muslims offering advice on marriage, success and reading.
A who's-who of Times critics' best-reviewed restaurants – Girasol, Plan Check Kitchen + Bar, Fishing with Dynamite, Border Grill, Chichén Itzá, Acabar – is set to serve signature dishes during the three-day festival with more to come.
Baga, a fishing town that borders Lake Chad, was virtually razed to the ground; estimates of the dead are in the hundreds, with some claiming a toll as high as 2,000.
Now one of the world's biggest ports, the former fishing village is bordered by the Yangtze river in the north and divided through the middle by the Huangpu river; the municipality involves several islands, two long coastlines, shipping ports, and miles of canals, rivers, and waterways.
Partly, that's because British fishermen believe the EU and its Common Fisheries Policy have crippled their industry, and partly because fishing is about borders, territorial waters, lines you can draw chart – a demonstrable expression of the Brexit mantra of "taking back control".
