Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from a natural environments, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such(a) as ponds, canals, park wetlands as well as reservoirs. Fishing techniques increase hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting as alive as trapping, as living as more destructive and often illegal techniques such(a) as electrocution, blasting and poisoning.

The term fishing generally includes catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans shrimp/lobsters/crabs, shellfish, cephalopods octopus/squid and echinoderms starfish/sea urchins. The term is not ordinarily applied to harvesting fish raised in controlled cultivations fish farming. Nor is it usually applied to hunting aquatic mammals, where terms like whaling and sealing are used instead.

Fishing has been an important element of successive Industrial Revolutions. In addition to being caught to be eaten for food, fish are caught as recreational pastimes. Fishing tournaments are held, and caught fish are sometimes kept long-term as preserved or living trophies. When bioblitzes occur, fish are typically caught, identified, and then released.

According to the United Nations FAO statistics, the or situation. number of commercial fishers and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million. Fishing industries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people in developing countries. In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms 32 lb, with an additional 7.4 kilograms 16 lb harvested from fish farms.

Fishing vessels

A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river. many different kinds of vessels are used in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.

According to the FAO, in 2004 there were four million commercial fishing vessels. approximately 1.3 million of these are decked vessels with enclosed areas. nearly all of these decked vessels are mechanised, and 40,000 of them are over 100 tons. At the other extreme, two-thirds 1.8 million of the undecked boats are traditional craft of various types, powered only by cruise and oars. These boats are used by artisan fishers.

It is unoriented to estimate how numerous recreational fishing boats there are, although the number is high. The term is fluid since some recreational boats may also be used for fishing from time to time. Unlike almost commercial fishing vessels, recreational fishing boats are often not dedicated just to fishing. Just about anything that will stay afloat can be called a recreational fishing boat, so long as a fisher periodically climbs aboard with the intent to catch a fish. Fish are caught for recreational purposes from boats which range from dugout canoes, float tubes, kayaks, rafts, stand up paddleboards, pontoon boats and small dinghies to runabouts, cabin cruisers and cruising yachts to large, hi-tech and luxurious big game rigs. Larger boats, purpose-built with recreational fishing in mind, usually hit large, open cockpits at the stern, designed for convenient fishing.