Overlord Pallier wrote:
"they have taken them out of the game"
This one is actually close to correct. While you can get Expert in Booty Bay, according to the official blizzard forums (and a few posts here), higher level fishing has been removed in the sense that you'll get a message saying "There are no fish here" when you try to fish anywhere above the 150 skill mark (i.e. fishing in Booty Bay it's self).
This is posted as a sticky on the main WoW forums:
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The fishing was intentionally -- and temporarily -- removed from areas such as Booty Bay and Moonglade as a measure with which to reduce the economical damage caused by fishing macros. Those areas will be restocked with fish in a future patch, along with some changes made to fishing.
I apologize, but I don't have further information for you at this time. Thank you for bearing with us on this in the meantime.
(And believe me, I understand your frustration -- my current play character has 190 fishing skill.)
- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager
I've decided to just hold on to that 1gp it costs to get the Expert book until they at least re-implement the higher level fishing areas.