Fisherman vs. Angler — What's the Difference?

A fisher or fisherman is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishers and fish farmers. Fishers may be professional or recreational.

A person who fishes with a rod and line

A person who catches fish for a living or for sport.

One who fishes with a hook.

One who fishes as an occupation or for sport.

A scheming person.

A commercial fishing vessel.

An anglerfish.

A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:

A person who fishes with a hook and line.

Any person who attempts to catch fish.

An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.

A person whose profession is catching fish.

Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.

A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.

A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.

One whose occupation is to catch fish.

One who angles.

A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

Someone whose occupation is catching fish

A scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

A fisherman who uses a hook and line

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey