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He was amphibious in his habits, having been a herring-fisher the best part of his life; but being a martyr to the rheumatism, which occasionally screwed him up into indescribable forms, had betaken himself to earning a precarious subsistence as he could on shore.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Take for instance the salmon fisher of Norway, the whaler of Dundee, the herring-fisher of Yarmouth, the cod-fisher of
Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893
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"At times it appears twice or thrice in the same night, and often the herring-fisher, after setting his nets along the bar, sees behind his boat, as he nears the shore, the apparition of the 'packet light.'
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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