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  2. Blast fishing - Wikipedia

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    Blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This often illegal practice is extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem , as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs ) that supports ...

  3. Ikejime - Wikipedia

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    Ikejime has been successfully used manually in the tuna and yellowtail industries, along with limited use in sport and game fishing, as it provides a rapid slaughter technique. An alternative to death by exsanguination, ikejime is used and the fish put straight into ice or flash freezing. [4]

  4. Off the Hook: Extreme Catches - Wikipedia

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    Off the Hook: Extreme Catches is an American reality television series that aired on Animal Planet and premiered on July 30, 2012. It was hosted by wrestler Eric Young , [ 1 ] who journeys out to meet and fish with the most unusual fishermen he can find.

  5. Outline of fishing - Wikipedia

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    Explosives – Blast fishing or dynamite fishing is the practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. Cyanide fishing – Cyanide fishing is a method of collecting live fish mainly for use in aquariums, which involves spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the desired fish's habitat in order to stun the fish.

  6. Priest (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A priest (also called a poacher's priest, game warden's priest, angler's priest, fish bat [1] or persuader) is a tool for killing game or fish. The name "priest" comes from the notion of administering the "last rites" to the fish or game. Anglers often use priests to quickly kill fish.

  7. Talk:Blast fishing - Wikipedia

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    Include reference to the saying "Fishing with dynamite" [ edit ] This page should include a reference to the common saying "Doing x is like fishing with dynamite" (Implying that x is so easy thats it is boring and doesn't demonstrate any skill) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.210.216.68 ( talk ) 22:51, 3 March 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]

  8. Fly tying - Wikipedia

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    Fly tying (also historically referred to in England as dressing flies) is the process of producing an artificial fly used by fly fishing anglers to catch fish. Fly tying is a manual process done by a single individual using hand tools and a variety of natural and manmade materials that are attached to a hook.

  9. Drum line (shark control) - Wikipedia

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    More than 84,000 marine animals have been ensnared by drum-lines and shark nets since the program began in 1962 [...] Nearly 27,000 marine mammals have been snared. The state’s shark control policy has captured over 5,000 turtles, 1,014 dolphins, nearly 700 dugongs and 120 whales, all of which are federally protected marine species. [46]