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Welcome to the Fisheries and Fishing WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to fisheries, aquaculture and fishing. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list 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.

[edit] Members

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!).

[edit] Active

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.

1. A-tron (talk · contribs) — joined 17 September 2009 - I'm a fisheries economist looking to edit and improve fisheries topics with links to economics.
2. Billreid (talk · contribs) — joined 11 May 2008 - Deep sea fishing and fisheries, fishing communities
3. Diamonddannyboy (talk · contribs) — joined 29 March 2008 - Im a keen carp fisherman and all rounder, fish the famous sutton.
4. Elnuko (talk · contribs) — joined 13 Dec 2007
5. 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.
6. Geronimo20 (talk · contribs) — joined 26 February 2008 - general dogsbody
7. Habaneroman (talk · contribs) — joined 14 Sep 2007
8. 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.
9. Kukulski (talk · contribs) — joined 31 August 2009 - Wish to distill the posts on the NANFA Forum into useful wiki information.
10. Mike Cline (talk · contribs) — joined 16 May 2007 - created Annotated bibliography of fly fishing and actively contributes to Fly Fishing, Fly Tying and Related Articles.
11. Themcman1 (talk · contribs) — joined 20 April 2007
12. Ummagumma23 (talk · contribs) — joined 9 July 2007

[edit] Inactive

Names are manually moved here if no wikipedia edits have been made for at least six months (last updated 1 December 2009). If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active list.

1. Bass fishing physicist (talk · contribs) — joined 4 May 2007
2. Bu b0y2007 (talk · contribs) — joined 19 April 2007
3. ChrisCotton (talk · contribs) — joined 3 June 2007
4. cf38 (talk · contribs) — joined 17 December 2007
5. Dusty.crockett (talk · contribs) — joined 7 January 2009
6. Ebolred (talk · contribs) — joined 03 Jul 2008
7. LaughingVulcan (talk · contribs) — joined 23 May 2007
8. Majikfactory (talk · contribs) — joined 26 September 2007
9. Medicellis (talk · contribs) — joined 4 August 2008
10. OAS (talk · contribs) — joined 4 February 2008
11. Steven130793 (talk · contribs) — joined 2 May 2007

[edit] Ways to contribute

[edit] To do list

This list is transcluded from the to do page, to edit, click here

Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Looking for a public domain image of G.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)

[edit] Tasks

This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit it click here.

Here are some tasks you can do for the Fisheries & Fishing WikiProject: Copyedit: Expand: Marine Protected Area I've exaused myself working on this article. Still more. Please help finish the Global status section! ResMar 17:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Develop to featured article: Article request: Picture request: (Upload any non-copyrighted fishing images to the appropriate section of Wikimedia Commons) Other:

[edit] Current projects

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[edit] Requests

• Article requests
• Photo requests

[edit] Discussions

You can start a discussion on the projects talk page.

[edit] Proposals

To add a proposal, add it in the proposal page.

[edit] Assessment

For more info on our assessment system, see the assessment page.

[edit] Templates

For a list and explanation of our project templates see the templates page.

[edit] Categories

Please make sure to add articles to the appropriate categories. The fishing-related categories, as of 11 December 2009 are:

• Category:WikiProject Fishing

Please use the most specific category that is applicable (ie, the most indented category). For example, the article B. H. Fisher should be under Category:American fishers (not Category:Fishers or Category:Fishing).

[edit] Some notable articles

Find more about Fishery on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

Find more about Aquaculture on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

Find more about Fishing on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Fishery

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Aquaculture

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Fishing

Here is a list of some notable articles within the scope of WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing.

Featured : Shrimp farm

A class: Fly fishing, Krill fishery

GA class : Marine Harvest

B class: Alaskan king crab fishing · American Museum of Fly Fishing · Angling · Angling in Yellowstone National Park · Aquaculture · Aquaculture in New Zealand · Aquaculture of salmon · Aquaculture of tilapia · Aquatic ecosystem · Artificial fly · Bass fishing · Bibliography of fly fishing · Big Hole River · Blast fishing · Bottom trawling · Cetacean bycatch · Chasse-marée · Cod Wars · Common Fisheries Policy · Discards · Dolphin safe label · Dory · European Fishery MLS · Exclusive Economic Zone · Fish (food) · Fish farming · Fish hook · Fisheries management · Fishing · Fishing hook · Fishing in Alabama · Fishing industry in China · Fishing industry in Russia · Fishing industry in Scotland · Fishing industry in the Maldives · Fishing industry in the United States · Fishing reel · Fishing rod · Fishing trawler · Fishing vessel · Fly fishing · Fly tying · Forage fish · Freshwater prawn farm · Gillnet · Glass float · Hol Chan Marine Reserve · Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture · Intertidal ecology · Krill fishery · Macassan contact with Australia · Marine Protected Area · Marine debris · Marine pollution · Moray Firth fishing disaster · Nobby (boat) · Overfishing · Population dynamics of fisheries · Ed Ricketts · Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency · Shoaling and schooling · Stockfish · Surf fishing · Taura syndrome · Traditional fishing boats · Trawling · Trophic cascade · Types of fish · Turtle excluder device · Woolly Bugger · Woolly Worm (imitation)

Did you knows (DYKs): Entries from these articles appeared on the main page Did you know? section.

Aquaculture in China · Aquaculture in New Zealand · Aquaculture of salmon · Cast net · Demersal fish · Discards · Factory ship · Fish diseases and parasites · Fishing industry in New Zealand · Fishing industry in China · Fishing industry in Russia · Fishing industry in the United States · Fishing tackle · Fishing vessel · Fishing village · Forage fish · Herring Buss · Infectious salmon anemia virus · Krill fishery · Mahi-mahi fishing‎ · Mincarlo (trawler) · Nobby (boat) · Pain in fish · Pelagic fish · Population dynamics of fisheries · Puretic power block · Royal Coachman · Scallop dredge · Shrimp farm‎ · Spey casting · Shoaling and schooling · Traditional fishing boats · Types of fish · Villy Christensen

[edit] Alerts

Good article nominations

• 6 Dec 2009 – Streptococcus iniae (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Fvasconcellos; see discussion.

Did you know

• 9 Dec 2009 – A fact from Fisheries and climate change (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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[edit] Articles For Deletion

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 Canvassing WP:CANVASS and should not solicit biased contributions to the deletion debate from other editors.

[edit] Active

[edit] Results

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annotated Bibliography of Fly Fishing, January 2008. Result was Keep

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annotated bibliography of fly fishing, June 2008. Result was Keep

• Pawistik Lodge Proposed 26 June 2008. See deletion page. Result was Keep. 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 an Advertisment for the lodge.

• Proposed 22 Jun. See deletion page Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_June_22#Category:Fly_Fishing_Waters Result was to Listify. List of fly fishing waters in North America and List of fly fishing waters in Europe were created and linked to fly fishing article. When adding waters to these lists either:
  • Ensure the water's article supports it as a notable fly fishing water
  • If no article exists for the water, please source the list with a proper citation.

• Templates for deletion/2008 July 10:Fish market topics Result was Keep July 15, 2008

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fish Information and Services. Result was no consensus, 26 September 2008.

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fish Information and Services (2nd nomination). Result was keep, 4 October 2008.

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Gustafson. Result was delete, 14 October 2008.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing is a multidisciplinary wikiProject which is related to or has some overlap with many other WikiProjects:

See also

• What is a Wikiproject?
• Best practice