In Old Jack's Boat, which mixes live action and animation, Cribbins plays an old fisherman who spins tall tales from his boat, The Rainbow.

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"In an hour, a half hour - just ten minutes - the crayfish can claw my fish to death, " says Salah Zayed a 56-year old fisherman who says he's been tossing his nets into the Nile since he was a child.

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Earlier this month, a 52-year-old fisherman on Vancouver Island was badly mauled after a black bear swam over to his boat, scrambled on board and began attacking him, refusing to let go despite being repeatedly struck with a gaff, beaten with a hammer and stabbed with various sharp objects until a rescuer finally managed to slit its throat with a filleting knife.

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But even in Canada some old salts loathe bottom trawling like Wayne Eddy, a 62-year-old independent fisherman from Nova Scotia.

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Ansil Saunders, an 80-year-old world-renown fisherman, boat builder and local legend.

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Steve McCullough, a commercial fisherman, walked his five-month-old puppy on the boardwalk in the morning.

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