The Fisher Bank is a sand bank in the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the ...
, off the west coast of
Denmark
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. It consists of ''Great Fisher Bank'', and ''Little Fisher Bank'' (the latter closer to Danish coast). Some older charts refer to them as the "Great Fishing Bank" and the "Little Fishing Bank". As ''Fisher'' it gives its name to one of the sea areas in the British
Shipping Forecast
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Location
Sea area Fisher is defined by the co-ordinates:
* 56°00'N 08°10'E
* 56°00'N 04°00'E
* 57°45'N 04°00'E
* 57°45'N 07°30'E
* 57°05'N 08°35'E
and the Danish coast.
Character
As its name suggests, these large sandbanks provide rich fishing grounds, but overfishing has left them less productive than they were, and many Danish fishing vessels have moved elsewhere, into the North Sea or the Baltic.
References
See also
Dogger Bank
Dogger Bank (Dutch: ''Doggersbank'', German: ''Doggerbank'', Danish: ''Doggerbanke'') is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about off the east coast of England.
During the last ice age the bank was part of a large landmass ...
for map and links to similar places
Sandbanks of the North Sea
Shipping Forecast areas
Landforms of Denmark
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