Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fishing/Proposals

This is the proposals talk page...

This is my first time and I am not familiar with the protocals etc.

I would be happy to chat directly with anyone interested in the subject.

I am the descendent of Dalmatian fishermen and boatbuilders who came to the Puget Sound region of the Northwestern United States ca. 1890. We were one of the main developers of the purse seine fishing boats and also the tuna fishing tuna clippers/bait boats.

One of our boats was the Western Flyer which John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took on the famous journey to The Sea of Cortez and the work of marine biologist Ed Ricketts.

The Mary E. Petrich was the largest and fastest tuna clipper of its time, built of wood.

I am engaged in researching a work on shipyards and boatbuilding on the West Coast of North America, including commercial fishing and canning, which was the reason for many of the boats built on the West Coast.

I have been recording the information on every boat built on the West Coast since 1851 over 5 tons burden showing for which fisherman/men built and by which shipyard.

I will be pleased to hear from any who wish to engage on this subject.

Allen Petrich allenpetrich@earthlink.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.135.171.148 (talk) 03:38, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * * Hi Allen. Certainly there will be interest in what you are doing. Would you please create a Wikipedia account and let me know either here or on my talk page what your account is. Best regards. --Epipelagic (talk) 04:03, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

There are so many things that are part of this project but the one thing that I see missing really is that there are a wide range of fishing apps out there now.I don't see those listed here anywhere and they really should be. As I went looking the other day I found about ten of them. Just not sure where they would conceivably fit into the fray. Ladymacbeth9 (talk) 03:08, 25 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, you're right, there's nothing much on fishing apps. I guess they are somewhat tangential to the fishing project, so it seems you pretty much have the field to yourself. There is Fishing video game which you could take as a starting point and expand as the main article. You could list apps there. If you want to go further, you could write individual articles for the most notable apps, and create a navigation template to tie them all together. You could consider enquiring at or joining WikiProject Video games. Feel free to ask if you want help. Regards. --Epipelagic (talk) 05:21, 25 September 2014 (UTC)