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Help needed: American lobster

I have been gradually improving our article on the American lobster, and I've finished most of what I can do. The main outstanding task is to provide references for the fisheries section (or rewrite it with references). Can anyone here help? I know very little about fishing and fisheries, particularly in the United States, so any assistance would be much appreciated. --Stemonitis (talk) 06:03, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to assist in adding donated content: GLAM/ARKive

Hi,

I am the Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador to ARKive, who have kindly agreed to donate an initial 200 article texts about endangered species from their project, to Wikipedia, under a CC-BY-SA license. Details are on the GLAM/ARKive project page. The donated texts include many about fishes. Your help, to merge the donated texts into articles, would be appreciated. Guidelines for doing so are also on the above page. Once articles have been expanded using the donated texts, we are also seeking assistance in having those articles translated into other languages. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, on the project's talk page, or my own. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:58, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Template that needs some work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fishing_location_topics - is anyone interested in separating USA states from other places? - surely there are other locations that could help create fishing location into separate continent or ocean/sea templates - with Australia as a part of a group of US states is really odd - either there is not much fishing article work being done anymore - or something is wrong... SatuSuro 06:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Waal... that was a template I wrote some years ago when I was trying to sort out the fishing articles. My expectation was that, over time, more articles about recreational fishing specific to different localities would appear. That hasn't happened so far, though I still expect it will, given enough time. They are obvious articles waiting to be written. So really its just a template which hasn't come into its own yet. I don't think it matters what happens to it at this stage. Australia could be removed, and it could be renamed something like "Recreational fishing in the United States. Or it could just be deleted. But I don't see much point in making either of those moves right now. It's not doing much harm, and it might prompt someone to write articles for it. Eventually enough articles will be written to clothe it more respectably, and it can be rationalised then. If it is to be kept, it should probably be rewritten as a footer template, not a side template. --Epipelagic (talk) 08:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

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Shrimps and prawns

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Shrimp#Caridea, Dendrobranchiata, Shrimp and Prawns. Does the term shrimp refer to a taxon or to a common name, and what is the scope of the shrimp and prawn articles? – Epipelagic (talk) 03:04, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Fishing vs fishing industry articles

Category:Fishing by country contains a mix of fishing and fishing industry articles. In the long term there should be articles that will fit Category:Fishing by country and a Category:Fishing industry by country. Meanwhile, the current set of articles should be checked to see it they are correctly titled as "Fishing in [Country]" or "Fishing industry in [Country]". -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:05, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Better categories might be Category:Recreational fishing by country, and either Category:Industrial fishing by country or Category:Commercial fishing by country. But many more articles are needed before there is much point in this split. --Epipelagic (talk) 03:16, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Is seafood a subset of cuisine?

Should articles on seafood be given titles that restrict them to cuisines, as a user maintains in this thread? There is a referral for comment on this issue where members of this project are invited to give their views. --Epipelagic (talk) 23:12, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople

An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:55, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

There is a discussion if the Environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was split correctly from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and if it should be merged back there. Relevant sections for this discussion are this and this. Your comments are appreciated. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 21:47, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Aquaculture by country

I created a Aquaculture by country page per WP:CLT. It is just a list but it deserves to be a fully fledged article. An Aquaculture in the United States article is a notable omission. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:34, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Sections merge request (Fisheries certification)

Hello, I'd like to kindly suggest that sections from three articles be merged to produce a new article on Fisheries certification. The three articles and their respective sections are:

• Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing#Certification
• Sustainable fishery#Awareness campaigns
• Sustainable seafood advisory lists and certification#Certification and labeling

Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 23:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Gosh, this is the fourth different place where you have raised the same issue. The thread continues on Talk:Sustainable fishery. --Epipelagic (talk) 02:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Just trying to cover all the bases. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 02:20, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Florence 2008.jpg

File:Florence 2008.jpg has been nominated for deletion. -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 23:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

HMT Alvis at sea.jpg

image:HMT Alvis at sea.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:14, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Missing topics page

I have updated Missing topics about Fish - Skysmith (talk) 09:13, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Rainbow trout nominated for GA

I've been upgrading the Rainbow trout article for the last couple of weeks. Essentially it was very unbalanced with too much emphasis on steelhead, instead on the type species Oncorhynchus mykiss and associated subspecies. The Rainbow trout is a complex topic and I trust I've made sufficient changes to warrant Good Article status. Any suggestions or help from this project would be appreciated.--Mike Cline (talk) 02:59, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Rainbow trout achieved GA status last week and I've requested a Peer review in advance of an attempt at FA status. Any feedback is welcome. --Mike Cline (talk) 14:58, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Cutthroat trout nominated for GA

I've just completed the overhaul of Cutthroat trout and put it up for GA. Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 17:52, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Category:Introduced freshwater fish and all associated subcats have been proposed for deletion.

Category:Introduced freshwater fish (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed for deletion, as well as all sub-cats, including:
Category:Introduced freshwater fish by country, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of South Africa, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Argentina, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Australia, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Chile, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Madagascar, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of New Zealand, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Papua New Guinea, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Ukraine, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of the United States, Category:Introduced freshwater fish by continent, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Africa, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Oceania, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of New Guinea, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of South America, Category:Introduced freshwater fish of Hawaii.
Anyone wishing to comment may do so at the categories' entries for AfD. __ E L A Q U E A T E 18:18, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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Cutthroat trout peer review

Cutthroat trout has been nominated for a peer review Wikipedia:Peer review/Cutthroat trout/archive1 in preparation for a FAC push. Any inputs welcome. Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 22:43, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Cutthroat trout at FAC

Have just loaded up Cutthroat trout at FAC. Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cutthroat trout/archive1 All reviews welcome. --Mike Cline (talk) 18:26, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Adams Fly

Hello, fishing enthusiasts. This old draft article will soon be deleted as stale. Is this a notable piece of fishing equipment, and should the article be kept and improved instead? —Anne Delong (talk) 03:20, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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Brook trout nominated for GA status

I've just nominated Brook trout for GA review. Any willing reviewers from this project interested? --Mike Cline (talk) 17:40, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Fisheries and Fishing at Wikimania 2014(updated version)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Environmental impacts of aquaculture

Dear fisheries experts: I is there anything useful in this old AfC submission that should bee merged into another article before it's deleted as a stale draft? Or should the draft be kept and improved? —Anne Delong (talk) 18:32, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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List of the most commonly harvested fish

It is new and could use some feedback and shaping. I will add images shortly.

I just realized that it ought to be List of most commonly harvested fish or something. You pick! Cheers, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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FAR of Marine shrimp farming

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New fly fishing related infobox

I've created an infobox for Artificial fly articles. {{infobox artificial fly}}. Comments are welcome, especially if there are additional parameters that should be added to the template. Please request additional parameters on the template talk page. Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 22:03, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Data issues at Fish farming

On checking up on the sources, values of aquaculture production as reported in Fish_farming#Major_species seem off. Interested editors might want to drop by at Talk:Fish_farming#Major_Species_table_data_seem_spurious and comment.-- Elmidae 12:23, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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Articles for inclusion

Wildlife management Areas, such as those in Louisiana, that are under the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, would seem to be a natural fit in this project. If someone would care to weigh in on this? 23:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)-- Otr500 (talk) 01:10, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report is back!

Hi all, the Community Tech team has been working hard to bring back the Popular pages report. The report for this project can be found at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing /Popular pages]]. I've made a redirect from the older link Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing/Article traffic statistics to make the link consistent across projects. If you're not happy with this change and want to stick with the older link (not recommended), please ping me and I will take care of it. Thank you. -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 23:36, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

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Discord

Hey all, I hope everyone is safe and healthy. My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. I was wondering if there was any interest in starting a WikiProject Sports channel on Discord? There's quite a few of us who are interested in sports, and I think it would be a good idea to help the WikiProject recruit more members. You guys can join us through here.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:07, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Forceful editorial promotion of the euphemistic term "harvesting"

Several editors, particularly Elmidae (see his talk page), stubbornly insist on using the euphemistic term "harvesting" with regard to the Atlantic goliath grouper, keep deleting the more neutral term "fishing", disregard both linguistic and zoological arguments against "harvesting," and fail to offer any specific arguments against "fishing." Note that I supported my arguments with accurate source references (including publication data, page numbers, and links), whereupon Elmidae merely made a vague and unspecific claim that he could support his position by numerous publications if he wanted to do so, but he never cited any specific source.114.206.49.189 (talk) 16:40, 9 May 2020 (UTC) If linguistic analysis is used, the term "harvesting" can be clearly identified as an euphemism, rather than a scientific term, if the referred species is the Atlantic goliath grouper. See the following linguistic definition of negative euphemism: "Negative euphemisms deflate and diminish. They replace language that people prefer to avoid using. Examples include harvesting in place of killing, collateral damage instead of civilian casualties or deaths, relationship for sexual relationship, and intestinal fortitude in place of guts," in https://www.writingenglish.com/euphemism.htm . In Robert W. Holder's "Oxford Dictionary of Euphemisms" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), the verb "harvest" is described as a mainly American euphemism and defined as "to kill for personal gratification." (p. 209). The use of negative euphemisms, particularly if these are less common in British or Australian English than in U.S. English, is at variance with Wikipedia's principle of neutrality. By this logic, one could similarly use the euphemistic term "sweat" (Schweiss) for the blood of a wounded game animal, as this term is commonly used in German hunting language ( http://wiredtohunt.com/2012/08/09/bowhunting-whitetails-the-eberhart-way-killing-deer-not-harvesting/ ). But since Wikipedia does refrain from calling blood "sweat," the term "fishing" should be similarly preferred over "harvesting" as far as it is used for the Atlantic goliath grouper, a species that was never kept in fish farms. See Wikipedia's own definition of euphemism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism . It clearly states that the purpose of this practice is avoidance, mitigation, understatement, substitution, metaphoric expression, circumlocution, etc., none of which is compatible with the principles of a Wikipedia entry. If one wants to argue in favor of "harvesting," one either needs to prove that a preference for euphemistic terms ('harvesting") over factual ones ("fishing") is compatible with Wikipedia's principles, or one needs to disprove that "harvesting" is an euphemistic term if applied to a wild population, or one needs to prove that the "Oxford Dictionary of Euphemisms" represents a minority and personal opinion in defining which words are euphemistic and which aren't. Wikipedia's own definition of "harvest" mentions the application of the term to fishing and hunting only with regard to Canada, whereas its glossary of fishing terms clearly specifies that the term "harvest" refers to a specific element of fishing: "the number or weight of fish caught and retained from a given area over a given period of time. Note that landings, catch, and harvest are different." As such, this is not a valid argument to dismiss the generic term "fishing" in favor of a euphemistic term whose use is geographically and semantically more limited than that of "fishing."114.206.49.189 (talk) 16:44, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

The editor has also started the same discussion at Talk:Atlantic goliath grouper. Suggest confining it to one venue (anyone is welcome to move my comments over here if desired). The rather exhausting run-up is at my talk page. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:28, 9 May 2020

Since the relevant section at Talk:Atlantic goliath grouper has been deleted, this latest attempt to "confine" and curtail the discussion has lost any justification. 114.206.49.189 (talk) 17:45, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

What the hell are you waffling on about. You deleted that section yourself, which is fine and hopefully makes everyone stick to this one (although a link would have been sensible - will add one). This will be more productive if you shed the victim role. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:09, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

It would be more productive if you provided factual arguments and cited sources to support your position instead of using such abusive and threatening language like "hell," "waffling," "out", "give up," and the like.114.206.49.189 (talk) 18:40, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

My reply copied from User_talk:Ifnord#Harvesting for any new participants in this discussion:

• Hello. I am not the user whose talk page you commented on; however, I also reverted your edits to Atlantic goliath grouper. I think the issue here is that you are conflating two different definitions for harvest. The verb "harvest" is not being used in the sense of harvesting a crop, but in the sense of catching animals. For example, Verb 1.1: [to] catch or kill (animals) for human consumption or Verb 1a: to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (salmon, oysters, deer, etc.) for human use, sport, or population control userdude 19:42, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

@114.206.49.189: Correct me if I'm wrong, but your issue seems to be that "harvest" implies that the fish are being caught for resources, but they are actually being caught for sport. There are two issues with this. The first is that the second definition above (Merriam-Webster, American English) includes catching for sport in the definition of "harvest". The second is that I'm not sure the assertion that these fish are being caught for sport is accurate, you'd need a reliable source for that. (If you are not claiming they are being caught for sport, but just that they were never farmed, I fail to see why the term harvest is not applicable — for example, one might say "hunter-gatherers harvest wild plants, fish, and game".) userdude 20:05, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

If I may interpret. The user thinks that "harvest" is a euphemism chosen to disguise the fact that fish are killed - see this edit and a string of similar ones. Over a series of reverts they have since backpedalled from pushing gems like this one to putting up a rearguard action against the specific term "harvest", and chosen to hang the entire thing on the hook that goliath grouper were never farmed - which, as you are aware, is entirely beside the point, but as long as one can lawyer about it, hey great. - Argh, I shouldn't comment here anymore, I'm just getting worked up. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:19, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

It can be very easily proven that "harvesting" is an euphemistic term, rather than a neutral one. Since Elmidae claims expertise in ornithological matters, he may be kind to explain if it would be appropriate to use the verb "harvest" to the massive hunting of songbirds in France, Italy, and some other Mediterranean countries. Note the following similarities with the Atlantic goliath grouper: the affected species were regularly used for human consumption but they were never bred or kept in farms for this purpose, and they were hunted/fished also for purposes of sport. If Elmidae is of the opinion that it would be inappropriate to use the term "harvesting" for the killing of songbirds, he should explain why it would be more appropriate to use it for the Atlantic goliath grouper and why it should be preferred over the term "fishing"; otherwise, his preference for it is merely an arbitrary and subjective one.114.206.49.189 (talk) 04:46, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Updating NOAA Fisheries article

Hi, I'm Allison and I'm an employee of NOAA. As an editor with a conflict of interest, I will not directly edit the NOAA article, or related articles. I am seeking interested editors to review an updated History section for the National Marine Fisheries Service article and implement the changes if they see fit. You may view the complete request and section here. My version of the History section encompasses information in the existing Background and History sections, and provides a cohesive and accurate story of the organization and includes inline citations. I'm hoping an editor will review my proposed section below and place the section at the top of the article, removing the existing Background and History sections. I'm happy to provide more information if needed. Thank you for your help! AP at NOAA (talk) 17:08, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar

Introducing the Fisheries and Fishing Barnstar and added @WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing/Templates. Jerm (talk) 14:41, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Please work on..

Hello, My name is Shadowblade08. I have recently been working on the Rapala page, and was wondering if some attention could be focused on that page in particular. I've been trying to work on it, but I don't know enough to edit it with confidence, and was wondering if someone else could help me. If you yourself cant help, is there anyone you could recommend to ask? Thanks, User:Shadowblade08 (talk) 01:43, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Myxobolus cerebralis Featured article review

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One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

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New article

Hey gang! I created an article for Virgil Ward, can't believe it wasn't already there. I only have basic information but I figure some enthusiasts would all like to jump on board for this one!--Paul McDonald (talk) 15:50, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

"Fishing television series"

Main page: WT:WikiProject Television § "Fishing television series"

The article Fishing television series (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) states that "fishing television series" are TV shows about sport and recreational fishing, while Category:Fishing television series contains many TV shows about commercial fishing, as does {{Fishing television}} (since 2009, when TV shows were added [1]); There's a discrepancy here. Is "Fishing television series" just about sport and recreational fishing, or does it also include commercial fishing. I will note that one of the most popular TV shows about fishing, The Deadliest Catch, is a commercial fishing TV show. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 21:31, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Moved to WT:WikiProject Television § "Fishing television series"

First powered Icelandic fishing boat

Members may be interested in the discussion in WT:SHIPS about whether Stanley (boat) meets WP:GNG. The stub is now sourced and there is more content at is:Stanley (bátur), sourced to this article, but translation is difficult. Davidships (talk) 10:32, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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