Welcome to theFisheries and Fishing WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are agroup dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related tofisheries,aquaculture andfishing. If you would like to join us, please feel free toadd your name to thelist of project members!
Goals
To organize articles on fisheries, aquaculture and fishing in a way that is useful.
To improve coverage of these areas by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to fisheries, aquaculture and fishing in Wikipedia.
Scope
The project generally considers articles related to historical or contemporary fisheries, aquaculture or fishing to be within its scope. At the end of September 2015, there were2,039 articles within the project's scope. During September 2015, the top 1000 articles received3,605,956 views, averaging 119,712 views per day.
If you are interested, you are very welcome to join and help us with the Fisheries and Fishing Wikiproject. Just sign below and, if you like, you can say what area you are particularly interested in (the fish might bite, but we don't!).
If you want to become a member, click the "edit" link to the right and add your username alphabetically by using the {{user|Username}} format. If you want to, you can add the{{User WProject Fishing}} userbox to your userpage. If you subsequently leave the project, please remove your name from the list.
Billreid (talk·contribs) — joined 11 May 2008 - Deep sea fishing and fisheries, fishing communities
Chefmikesf (talk·contribs) - joined 1 September 2017 - I'm involved with commercial fisheries and how they relate to the consumer market.
SonOfYoutubers (talk·contribs) — joined 24 March 2025 - interested in fishery-related articles, interested in expanding "Fishing industry in [COUNTRY]" articles
Stratocaster27 (talk·contribs) — joined 29 June 2013 - freshwater and surf fishing. Knowledgeable about equipment, rods/reels, and tackle.
DrGvago (talk·contribs) — joined 19 February 2021 - interested in recreational saltwater fishing and associated boats/watercraft, but may be able to help with other boating and fishing related topics
Names are manually moved here if no wikipedia edits have been made for at least six months (last updated 27 January 2023). If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active list.
AzCoy7 (talk·contribs) — Joined 25 May 2019 - Very enthusiastic fishing person.
4500Fish (talk·contribs) -Joined 7 September 2012 - interested in research to improve commercial recreational and indigenous fishing in Australia and around the world
A-tron (talk·contribs) — joined 17 September 2009 - I'm a fisheries economist looking to edit and improve fisheries topics with links to economics.
{{Barmbyrover}} I am a match and general angler in the UK, coaching experience.
Diamonddannyboy (talk·contribs) — joined 29 March 2008 - Im a keen carp fisherman and all rounder, fish the famous sutton.
EWDes (talk·contribs) - joined 16 Jan 2010 - fishing in general, eager to help improve the entries around species and sport fishing on Wikipedia
Fishingyoyito (talk·contribs) - I'm interested in expanding the handline fishing article. People have been handlining for thousands of years, I think we can come up with a little more content for this article. However, this will be my first contribution to Wikipedia, so please keep an eye on me and let me know if I do something wrong.
Frankmoley (talk·contribs) — joined 12 March 2008 - Midwestern fly fisher and bass fisher....love all kinds of fishing and fish. I would like to look at updating the rivers that hold trout.
GrinchPeru (talk·contribs) — joined 10 January 2011- Lifelong small stream flyfisher, and sporadic deep sea fisher. I have significant access to fishery experts, and interest, particularly but not limited to Engraulis ringens, and could contribute in English and Spanish.
Hcberkowitz (talk·contribs) — joined 15 July 2007 - interested in commercial fishing, especially the monitoring, control, and surveillance thereof. I'm working with Vessel Management System and other maritime electronics.
Kukulski (talk·contribs) — joined 31 August 2009 - Wish to distill the posts on the NANFA Forum into useful wiki information.
kylek14 (talk·contribs) - joined 11 November 2010 - Active trout and bass fisherman. Would love to help out anyway I can to make individuals aware of the sport and species.
Lilithmoon1 (talk·contribs) - joined 1 July 2012 - interested in North American freshwater fishing
seacucumber06 (talk·contribs)- joined 4 March 2010 - presently involved in long term fisheries livelihood rehabilitation projects under World Bank aid.
SeaNympho (talk·contribs) - joined 14 February 2010 - Avid fisherman with specialties in bass, stream trout, & catfish.
Venator48 (talk·contribs) — joined 9 February 2016 - much personal experience in freshwater game fishing, sporting book, and tackle collecting, have published monographs in Britain and the United States on angling authors, the literature of field sports, and salmon flies.
oso162 (talk·contribs) - joined 13 September 2019- Interested in fishing for fun and the study of fish.
Fishing TV (talk·contribs) — joined 17 June 2019 - Interested in recreational fishing TV programs, films, movies about the sport
Erik Sulanke (talk·contribs) — joined 5 December 2019 - Fisheries ecologist with focus on North Atlantic and EU-fleet
Looking for a public domain image ofG.E.M. Skues. I far as I know there is a single known image of him sitting with his fly rod. It appears in many books and web articles. I just can't find the original source which is probably in the public domain somewhere. Can any of you British guys help out here?--Mike Cline (talk)13:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The below listed articles related to the Fisheries and Fishing Project are or have been subject to deletion proposals. Project members interested in contributing to the deletion discussion on active deletion debates should do so on the article's deletion page. Members aware of a deletion proposal on a fishing project related article not listed here, should list the article here so that other project members may become aware of it. Editors are reminded of the Wikipedia guideline on CanvassingWP:CANVASS and should not solicit biased contributions to the deletion debate from other editors.
Pawistik Lodge Proposed 26 June 2008. Seedeletion page. Result wasKeep. The original author or others need to clean up this article and source it well for it to stay. Of particular importance is not to make it anAdvertisment for the lodge.
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