recreational fishing
Fishing for fun
Recreational fishing is catching fish for sport or leisure rather than commercial sale or subsistence.
The activity ranges from casual pier fishing to competitive tournaments, and includes both catch-and-release and keeping fish for personal consumption.
He took up recreational fishing after retirement.
Regulations typically distinguish recreational from commercial fishing, with different licenses, catch limits, and permitted gear.
- rod and reelLine-casting equipment combination
- wadersWaterproof fishing garment
- creelAngler's wicker container
- catch and releaseAngling without keeping prey
- fresh catchRecently caught seafood
bait · game · dawn · early morning · hunting · rise · patience · tackle · quarry · cooler · fish stories · pier · lake · nibble · release · stream · boat · retrieve
- fishingfish, bait, hook, catch, hooks
- freshwater fishingfreshwater fish, walleye, crappie, bluegill, perch
- fisheriesfish stock, fish stocks, trawlers, fish quotas, overfishing
- Coastal Fishingcrab pots, blue crab, striped bass, shellfish, crabbing
- salmon fisherieschinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, Atlantic salmon
- fishing rightsnative rights, sovereign rights, catch limits, fish quotas, quota systems
recreational fishingcommercial fishing
Harvesting seafood for profit
subsistence fishing · fishing industry · fish trade · charter fishing
recreational fishingaquaculture
Farming underwater organisms
fish farming · fish conservation · marine conservation · fish stocking · mariculture
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