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Fishbone
Fishbone is an American band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, fusing ska, punk, funk, metal, reggae, and soul. Founders Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher; breakthrough album The Reality of My Surroundings (1991); not the fishbone diagram.
Fishbourne
Fishbourne Roman Palace in Fishbourne, near Chichester, West Sussex, is the largest known Roman domestic building north of the Alps, built around AD 75 and possibly home to King Togidubnus.
Fishbowl (conversation)
Fishbowl conversation: a facilitation method with a small inner circle discussing a topic while a larger outer circle observes; open (empty-chair, audience joins) or closed forms, rooted in the T-group movement.
Fishbowl Inventory
Fishbowl Inventory is inventory management and light manufacturing software for small and midsize businesses, founded in 2001, extending QuickBooks or Xero with barcode scanning and multi-warehouse stock control.
Fishcake
Fishcake: a patty of fish. In Britain, fish mixed with mashed potato, breadcrumbed and fried; in East Asia, surimi fish paste products such as Japanese kamaboko and Korean eomuk (어묵, odeng), shaped and heat-set into a gel.
Fisher (animal)
Fisher (Pekania pennanti), formerly Martes pennanti, a North American mustelid of boreal and temperate forests; eats hares and porcupines, not fish; delayed implantation; secure globally (G5) but endangered in Washington and listed for the Southern Sierra Nevada DPS.
Fisher (musician)
FISHER (Paul Nicholas Fisher, b. 1986, Gold Coast, Australia), also known from duo Cut Snake, is an Australian tech-house DJ and producer; "Losing It" (2018, Catch & Release) was Beatport's top 2018 track, won Billboard Dance Club Songs No. 1, and earned a 2019 Best Dance Recording Grammy nomination.
Fisher (valve brand)
Fisher is a brand of control valves, regulators, actuators, and digital valve instrumentation owned by Emerson Electric, founded by William Fisher in Marshalltown, Iowa, in 1880.
Fisher & Paykel
Fisher & Paykel, also known as Fisher and Paykel, is a New Zealand-founded luxury home appliance brand established in Auckland in 1934, known for the DishDrawer dishwasher.
Fisher and Schwartz cheating scandal
Fisher and Schwartz cheating scandal: 2015 bridge case in which Boye Brogeland accused Israeli pair Lotan Fisher and Ron Schwartz of board-placement signals; EBL banned them five years individually and for life as a pair.
Fisher Building
The Fisher Building is a 441-foot, 28-story Art Deco skyscraper at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, completed in 1928 from a design by architect Albert Kahn.
Fisher effect
The Fisher effect is the economic proposition that nominal interest rates rise point-for-point with expected inflation, leaving real rates unaffected; Irving Fisher derived it in 1896.
Fisher equation
The Fisher equation, or Fisher relation, states that nominal interest rates equal the real rate plus expected inflation; the predicted rise of nominal rates with expected inflation is the Fisher effect.
Fisher index
The Fisher index, also called the Fisher ideal index, is an index number formula introduced by Irving Fisher in 1922, used in US and Canadian national accounts.
Fisher information
Fisher information is a statistical quantity that measures how much a set of data carries about an unknown parameter of a probability distribution, introduced by Ronald Fisher in 1922.
Fisher Island, Florida
Fisher Island, Florida (ZIP 33109): a 216-acre private barrier-island community off Miami Beach, ferry-only access, created by the 1905–1911 Government Cut dredging, owned successively by Carl Fisher, Vanderbilt II, and Rebozo interests.
Fisher King
Fisher King, also Roi Pescheor or Rich Fisherman: wounded Arthurian Grail keeper first appearing in Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval (c. 1175-1190), whose thigh or groin wound turns his kingdom into the Waste Land until a pure knight asks the healing question.
Fisher Lynch Partnership
Fisher Lynch Partnership is the name for the co-investment funds of Fisher Lynch Capital, a Burlingame, California private equity firm founded by Brett Fisher in 2003.
Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens (born 1963, Chicago) is an American actor, director, and producer, born Steven Fisher. Known for Short Circuit, Succession, Hackers; Oscar-winning producer of The Cove (2010) and director of Before the Flood (2016).
Fisher transformation
The Fisher transformation, also known as Fisher's Z-transform, converts a Pearson correlation coefficient into a statistic with an approximately normal distribution, introduced by Ronald Fisher in 1915.
Fisher Zhang (张斐)
Fisher Zhang (张斐) is a Chinese venture capitalist and Partner at 5Y Capital, best known for backing Kuaishou from its earliest angel round and for five Forbes Midas List appearances from 2021 to 2025.
Fisher-Price
Fisher-Price is an American toy brand for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, founded in 1930 in East Aurora, New York, and owned by Mattel since 1993.
Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem
The Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem is a probability theory result stating that normalized maxima of random variables can only converge to the Gumbel, Fréchet, or Weibull types.
Fisher–Yates shuffle
The Fisher–Yates shuffle, also called the Knuth shuffle, is an algorithm that randomly permutes a sequence so every ordering is equally likely, running in place in linear time.
Fisher's exact test
Fisher's exact test, also called the Fisher-Irwin test, is a statistical test for association in a 2 × 2 table, introduced by R. A. Fisher in 1935.
Fisheries Act (Canada)
Fisheries Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. F-14), Canada's main federal fisheries statute since 1868, modernized by Bill C-68 in 2019; prohibits death of fish and habitat destruction (HADD) except by DFO authorization, and mandates stock rebuilding.
Fisheries and Maritime Museum (Esbjerg)
The Fisheries and Maritime Museum (Danish: Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet) is a fisheries and seafaring museum with a saltwater aquarium and sealarium in Esbjerg, Denmark, opened in 1968.
Fisheries crime
Fisheries crime: criminal activity tied to the fishing industry, spanning illegal fishing, value-chain offenses like document fraud and corruption, and trafficking. Not equated to IUU fishing; costs up to $50 billion annually.
Fisheries management
Fisheries management is the process of collecting data, planning, and enforcing rules that regulate fishing to keep stocks productive long term, balancing biological, ecological, economic, and social objectives.
Fisheries management in New Zealand
Fisheries management in New Zealand is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries under the Fisheries Act 1996, centered on the Quota Management System introduced in 1986.