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/ˈfɪʃə/ · noun
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.
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.
Use fisher when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fisher means A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing..
Common synonyms include angler, fisherman, fisherperson, piscary.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.
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