Fishing industry

The economic sector that catches, farms, processes, and markets fish and other aquatic organisms for sale.

Commercial fishing: The capture of wild aquatic organisms for sale or commercial processing. It supplies seafood from wild stocks rather than farmed populations.
Overfishing: Fishing at a rate that depletes a population faster than it can recover. Excessive harvest can undermine the resource on which capture fisheries depend.
Capture fisheries: Fisheries that harvest naturally occurring aquatic populations rather than raising them. They contrast with aquaculture, the sector’s cultivated production method.
Fisheries management: The regulation and planning of fishing to meet ecological, economic, and social goals. Rules set access, catch limits, and conditions for commercial harvest.
Sustainable fisheries: Fisheries managed to maintain ecological function and productive fish populations over time. The term frames disputes over what harvest levels and practices can endure.
Aquaculture: The farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants. It provides a cultivated supply alongside wild capture.
Bycatch: Organisms caught unintentionally while fishing for target species. Unintended catch can harm non-target species and marine ecosystems.
Fish farming: The controlled raising of fish for food or other commercial uses. It contrasts with catching wild fish, though both supply seafood markets.
Catch share: A fisheries management system that allocates a defined share of total allowable catch to participants. It is one way to distribute access and incentives among fishing businesses.
Fishery subsidies: Government financial support that benefits fishing or related activities. Their effects on fleet capacity and fishing pressure remain central policy questions.

Linked from 15 pages