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Catching the fish that form shoals (6)

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I believe the answer is:

gather

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'catching the fish that form shoals' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'catching the fish' is the wordplay.
'catching' is an insertion indicator.
'fish' becomes 'gar' (gar is a kind of fish).
'the' placed inside 'gar' is 'GATHER'.

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(Other definitions for gather that I've seen before include "Come/bring together" , "Collect or asemble" , "Collect together in one place" , "Come together for the rag" , "... will proverbially do this" .)

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