Is the headline acceptable?

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Busy In Winter Fishing Season, Joyful For An Abundant Harvest

The "harvest" refers to "having caugh a lot of fishes". Did it work?

Also please edit the headline.
 
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Yes, 'harvest' is OK for fishes and rice; researchers even 'harvest' stem cells.

'Joyful' is a bit non-natural. Are they 'hopeful' (i.e. is the harvest still in the future) or perhaps 'happy with', 'thankful for', 'grateful for'? Or maybe it is the 'for' that bothers me: 'joyful over' sounds better.
 
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How about 'catch'? ;-)
 
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Thanks MM.

Busy In Winter Fishing Season, Joyful Over An Abundant Harvest


Tdol, if using "catch', then we have:

Busy In Winter Fishing Season, Joyful Over An Abundant Catch

Is it nice?
 
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It's good enough. 'Catch' works better than 'harvest'.
 
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