Fishing Industry

The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products. It is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, and the related harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors. The commercial activity is aimed at the delivery of fish and other seafood products for human consumption or as input factors in other industrial processes. Directly or indirectly, the livelihood of over 500 million people in developing countries depends on fisheries and aquaculture.

The fishing industry is notably connected to a number of major environmental issues: including overfishing, . Additionally the combined pressures of forces like climate change, biodiversity loss, and overfishing endanger the livelihoods and food security of substantial portion of the global population. International policy to attempt to address these issues is captured in Sustainable Development Goal 14 "life below water" and subgoal 14.4. "Sustainable fishing"

There are three principal industry sectors according to the Food and Agriculture Organization as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing.

Other slightly different definitions exist, for example the Australian government uses:

The commercial sector: comprises enterprises and individuals associated with wild-catch or aquaculture resources and the various transformations of those resources into products for sale. It is also referred to as the "seafood industry", although non-food items such as pearls are included among its products.

The traditional sector: comprises enterprises and individuals associated with fisheries resources from which aboriginal people derive products in accordance with their traditions.

The recreational sector: comprises enterprises and individuals associated for the purpose of recreation, sport or sustenance with fisheries resources from which products are derived that are not for sale.

Journal of Fisheries Research welcomes submissions via Online Submission System

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Anna D Parker

Journal Manager

Journal of Fisheries Research

Email: fisheriesres@emedscholar.com