sportfishing
IPA: spɔrtfɪʃɪŋ
noun
- fishing for pleasure or competition, as opposed to commercial fishing
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Examples of "sportfishing" in Sentences
- Hunting and sportfishing is very prevalent.
- Sportfishing is popular throughout the basin.
- Some sportfishing for mountain whitefish occurs.
- The lake is maintained primarily for sportfishing.
- The town is also an agriculture and sportfishing center.
- It may be the most quoted line in American sportfishing.
- Scads are fairly important both to fisheries and to sportfishing.
- A white sportfishing boat climbed a perpendicular line on the horizon.
- Mackerel scad are fairly important both to fisheries and to sportfishing.
- Much of the tourism in the Golfito area focuses on the sportfishing industry.
- When the index moves by just a tenth of a point, 40,000 anglers have entered or quit sportfishing.
- Out on the Gulf Stream, the white sportfishing boat fell away as it crossed the horizon, and two sailboats made their way south against the current.
- Fishing boats bristling with rods occupy every dock — a wild array of party boats, offshore sportfishing boats, flats boats, cuddy cabins, walkarounds, and center consoles.
- I can tell you first how odd it is to be off VA Beach striper fishing on a cold January day and see this guy out fishing amongs all the sportfishing, walkaround and canvas covered center console boats.
- I wish you good luck on your fishing, but check with the vessel's skipper; I'm told there have been changes in fishing regulations in 2008, and I don't know what they may be or how they'd affect sportfishing.
- Banning the sale and harvest of bluefin tuna and other in-demand species may be a necessary step to insure the future of the multi-million dollar sportfishing and tourism industry and to support efforts at ocean conservation.
- "Their intention to eliminate the use of lead in fishing tackle in national parks was made without prior consultation of the sportfishing industry or the millions of recreational anglers who fish within the national park system," ASA vice president Gordon Robertson said.