Questions tagged [fishing]
For questions related to the act of catching fish.
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Why would a rural village need rope in times of famine?
My protagonist needs food from a village during times of a famine, and all she can offer (or pretend to offer) is spinning their animal hair to make rope (nobody else has those skills.) Is there a way ...
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Where can I learn more about 1700 era boating?
I want to write about men out doing whaling and fishing with the type of technology similar to that of early 1700s boating. They are going to have a blunderbuss, use old harpoon fishing, sail boats ...
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Fishing from underwater domes
It makes sense to me that the best food in an underwater dome complex would be fish. Considering the massive amounts of aquatic life in the vicinity, it could work pretty well.
However, I can't think ...
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The effect of fishing on total land area needed to feed an island settlement
I am trying to create an island with a large settlement on it, the people of this settlement need to be able to sustain themselves and according to Medieval demographics made easy (MDME)
A square ...
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Can you catch a fish with a fishing rod... from orbit?
Hijacking DaaaahWhoosh's backstory, let's say our sniper takes the shot anyway, but he accidentally hit one of his weather balloons he set up, and now he's out of tungsten bullets. Frustrated, he ...
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Explorers living off the sea
I am working on a setting whose low-tech inhabitants are starting to launch long-distance voyages of exploration (preferentially by sea, because travel that way is so much faster than on land). They ...
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How to catch giant sea creatures?
One hundred years into the future, humanity colonizes the first planet in another solar system. A big ocean world! Yay!
But there is a problem: Most of the flora is toxic for consumption, so the ...
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How would air-nomads catch food in the sky?
The world: sky nomads in solar-powered airships, roaming planet earth
The technology level: 2030s or 2040s. The airships are similar to the IRL designs LCAT60T airship by Flying Whales, Airlander 10, ...
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How would you go about seeding oceans of Europa with adapted Earth life?
How do you go about building a working Earth-like ocean ecosystem from scratch in Europa's subsurface ocean?
On Earth, abyssopelagic species have evolved to live more than 6km below the surface. ...
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How does the kraken get its bait? [closed]
The kraken is a great sea monster, with many heads, pincers, and tentacles. Anatomically it is similar to a whale in most parts, but with crab-like features particularly in the pincers, as well as a ...
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Is there a culture where traditionally women fish? [closed]
I guess as far as the social aspects of worldbuilding are concerned, pretty much anything goes but I'd still like to incorporate elements that aren't far-fetched in terms of real-world applicability.
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Creating a realistic world map - fisheries [closed]
I've sketched out my coastlines, my mountains, my wind currents, and my climate zones. If its Earth-like in all respects but geography, where should the inhabitants of my world expect to find fish, ...
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What do you call fishing on a planet where there are no fish? [closed]
When Plato gave Socrates the definition of man as “featherless bipeds,” Diogenes found and plucked a chicken and brought the poor creature into Plato's Academy, placed it on the ground and announced, “...
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How did fishermen fish from caravels or cogs? [closed]
I'm trying to get some details on the techniques of fishing from caravel or cog ships. I've found plenty of resources telling me that they were used for fishing but no details regarding how. Are we ...
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Extreme Sport: Fishing
A small IT company decided to launch an epic advertizing campaign to increase its branding decided to hold a fishing contest. Participant of all ages and professions are welcome preferably those with ...
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