A gender-neutral collective term for people who work in the fishing profession.
Compound of 'fisher' (Old English 'fiscere') and 'people' (Old English 'pēople', from Latin 'populus'). This modern coinage reflects 20th-century efforts to create inclusive language for mixed-gender groups.
The shift from 'fishermen' to 'fisherpeople' or 'fishers' accelerated in the 1970s as women entered commercial fishing in greater numbers — but linguistically, it also revealed how male-default terms had literally erased women from entire industries in our vocabulary.
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