fisher

noun

1. 1

   A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.

   The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.

   Yet every fisher that Dzugan knows, and every fisher elsewhere, too, knows someone who has died at sea or had a near miss. […] But they are also the reasons for the safety campaigns, for the constant and valiant attempts to persuade fishers to wear lifejackets at work, to figure out how to get someone overboard back on the vessel, to carry ladders or gaffers that someone can grab on to.

noun

1. 1

   A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.

   In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.

   In the southeastern United States, Krohn et al. (1994) hypothesize that the inverse relationship between captures of fishers and martens by commercial trappers may result from an interaction between competitive displacement of marten by fisher and the avoidance of areas with deep and frequent snowfalls by fishers but not martens.

   The term "forest carnivores" denotes a smaller group of four species - the marten, fisher, lynx, and wolverine - and is only marginally descriptive, inasmuch as it excludes many carnivores that live in forests, and includes the wolverine, which can thrive in the complete absence of trees.

2. 2

   Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.

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fishers