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Fishing net
Fishing net: meshed gear for capturing fish by gilling, entangling, encircling, or towing. Main types are gillnets, trammel nets, seines, purse seines, and trawls; key issues are mesh-size selectivity, bycatch, discards, and ghost fishing from lost gear.
Fishing rod
Fishing rod: flexible shaft with reel and guides for casting and playing fish. Types include spinning, baitcasting, spincast, and fly rods; materials evolved from hazel and split bamboo (1845, Samuel Phillipe) to fiberglass and carbon fibre.
Fishing techniques
Fishing techniques are the gears and methods for catching aquatic life, classified as passive (gillnets, longlines, pots) or active (trawls, seines). Bottom trawling supplies about a quarter of wild marine catch but causes most seabed disturbance and discards.
Fishing trawler
A fishing trawler, also called a fishing dragger, is a vessel that tows a large funnel-shaped trawl net through the water to catch fish and shellfish in bulk.
Fishing vessel
Fishing vessel: a boat or ship for catching fish, whales, seals, walrus, or other sea life (IMO SOLAS definition). FAO classifies types such as trawlers, purse seiners, and longliners under ISSCFV; distinct from motherships and fish carriers.
Fishing village
A fishing village is a small community near water, sometimes with a linear form, where economies focus on fishing or handicrafts. These can range from 500 to 2,500 inhabitants.
Fishke the Lame
Fishke the Lame (Yiddish: Fishke der krumer) is an 1869 novel by Mendele Moykher-Sforim, a landmark of modern Yiddish fiction set among Jewish beggars and paupers.
Fishmonger (album)
fishmonger (2021) is the debut studio album by American hyperpop artist underscores (April Harper Grey), self-released March 25, 2021; ten tracks, 33:41, guitar on every song, vocals recorded in a car on an iPhone, followed by boneyard aka fearmonger and Wallsocket.
Fishnet stockings
Fishnet stockings are hosiery with an open, diamond-shaped knit that leaves the skin visible, worn since the 1920s by showgirls, adopted by punk in the 1970s, and now a fashion staple.
Fishplate
A fishplate, also called an angle bar or splice bar, is a metal bar bolted to the sides of two rail ends to join them in railway track.
Fishpond
Fishpond is a scheduled medieval pond monument in Lillington, Dorset, England (NHLE 1005578, scheduled 15 September 1975); an artificially created pool for cultivating, breeding, and storing fish, a monument class that peaked in 12th-century England.
Fishsticks (South Park)
"Fishsticks" is a 2009 South Park episode in which Jimmy Valmer invents a fishsticks joke that only Kanye West fails to get, airing April 8, 2009.
Fishtank (web series)
Fishtank (fishtank.live) is an American 24/7 interactive reality competition web series created by Sam Hyde in 2023, in which contestants live in a monitored smart house for a $50,000 prize while paying viewers control events via tokens, TTS, and polls.
Fishtank Live
Fishtank Live (fishtank.live) is a 24/7 interactive livestreamed reality competition created by Sam Hyde and Jet Neptune, streaming since April 18, 2023, where viewers pay to prank housebound contestants.
FISiM-NGS-MDS study
FISiM-NGS-MDS (NCT04212390) is an Italian prospective observational study by the Fondazione Italiana Sindromi Mielodisplastiche enrolling about 882 adults with newly diagnosed MDS across roughly 70 centers, collecting longitudinal peripheral blood NGS data to validate dynamic IPSS-M risk assessment.
Fisk (TV series)
Fisk is an Australian ABC TV comedy (2021– ) created by and starring Kitty Flanagan as lawyer Helen Tudor-Fisk at the Melbourne wills-and-probate firm Gruber & Gruber, with Julia Zemiro, Marty Sheargold, and Aaron Chen; a Netflix international hit, distinct from Marvel's Wilson Fisk.
Fisk University
Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 1866, home of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, first HBCU accredited by SACS (1930), now led by President Agenia Walker Clark.
Fiskars
Fiskars is Finland's oldest company, a consumer goods maker founded as an ironworks in 1649 and known worldwide for its orange-handled scissors, first made in 1967.
Fisker Automotive
Fisker Automotive was an American car company founded by designer Henrik Fisker in 2007, which built the Fisker Karma luxury plug-in hybrid before filing for bankruptcy in 2013.
Fisker Inc.
Fisker Inc. was an American electric-vehicle manufacturer founded in 2016 by designer Henrik Fisker, known for the Fisker Ocean SUV, which it built from 2023 until bankruptcy in 2024.
Fisker Karma
The Fisker Karma is a four-door luxury plug-in hybrid sedan launched in 2011 by Henrik Fisker's Fisker Automotive; the company went bankrupt in 2013, and Wanxiang continued the car as Karma Automotive.
Fissidens
Fissidens, sole genus of the moss family Fissidentaceae (Dicranales), about 440 species; unique four-lamina leaves with sheathing vaginant laminae, 16-toothed split peristome, tropical distribution, three subgenera from the 2018 molecular phylogeny.
Fissidens adianthoides
Fissidens adianthoides (maidenhair pocketmoss), Fissidentaceae, is a robust bipolar wet-habitat moss with unistratose laminae and a pale marginal band, confused with F. dubius, genome sequenced 2025.
Fissidentaceae
Fissidentaceae, also called pocket moss family, is a moss family with the single genus Fissidens (450–500 species), defined by distichous leaves with pocket-like vaginant laminae; tropical diversity, Dicranales, three molecular subgenera since 2018.
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
The Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) is an international agreement prohibiting the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or explosive devices; negotiations have been assigned to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva since 1995.
Fission (biology)
Fission (biology): asexual reproduction in which one cell divides into two (binary fission) or many (multiple fission) daughter cells; typical of bacteria via FtsZ-driven septum formation, protozoa, and some invertebrates.
Fission barrier
A fission barrier is the energy a heavy atomic nucleus must overcome or tunnel through before dividing into two fragments, governing whether it survives or undergoes spontaneous fission.
Fission fragment angular momentum puzzle
The fission fragment angular momentum puzzle is the unresolved question of why fission fragments carry spins near 7 ħ even from spin-zero nuclei, open since the early 1970s.
Fission gas release
Fission gas release is the escape of gaseous fission products, chiefly xenon and krypton, from nuclear fuel pellets into the fuel rod's free volume during irradiation.
Fission isomer
A fission isomer is a long-lived excited nuclear state, also called a shape isomer, trapped in a superdeformed second minimum that decays by spontaneous fission.