Which version of the NIV? The 1985 version, or the more recent one? The updated version have switched to supposedly gender neutral language, and the passage now reads “17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
One of my favorites for the New Testament remains Tyndale’s 1526 version:
“As he walked by the sea of Galile, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting nets into the sea, for they were fishers. And Iesus said unto them: follow me, and I will make you to be fishers of men. And they straightway forsook their nets, and followed him.”
I'm not happy with either of them.
Under the Preface my NIV says 1978 and (Revised 1983) so maybe that is the 1984 version, and the copyrights are numerous so if I am correct for this one it reads 1973, 1978, 1984. Mine is a Life Application Bible, NIV. Zondervan.