Tell about the Fishing Industry ?

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The days when humans hunted wild animals to survive
are not yet over - we still catch and consume billions of fish
and marine animals each year. Since the beginning of human history,
people have equated fish with food. Today, fish is still the primary
source of protein for over a billion people in the Majority World

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.

In the US the fatality rate for the fishing industry is 16 times higher than for fire-fighting or police work and 40 times the national average.

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

In Guinea, which has around 7,000 artisanal fishers, 1 in every 200 dies in a canoe accident.

The top producing countries were, in order, the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan), Peru, Japan, the United States, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, India, Thailand, Norway and Iceland. Those countries accounted for more than half of the world's production; China alone accounted for a third of the world's production.

The world's fishing industry spends $124 billion every year to produce $70 billion worth of fish - the difference ($54 billion) is paid for in subsidies

Aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic organisms. Unlike fishing, aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the cultivation of aquatic populations under controlled conditions.

For every dollar earned from fishing in the late 1980s, governments, taxpayers and fishers spent $1.77

Mariculture refers to aquaculture practiced in marine environments. Particular kinds of aquaculture include algaculture (the production of kelp/seaweed and other algae); fish farming; shrimp farming, shellfish farming, and the growing of cultured pearls.

Of the 3.5 million fishing vessels in service, 35,000 are government- subsidized boats accounting for half the world's fishing capacity.

Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosed pools, usually for food. Fish species raised by fish farms include carp, salmon, tilapia, catfish and cod.

Corporations
Some of the most profitable international companies are actually ordinary fishmongers. Although all of these corporations produce a wide range of goods, the millions they have made from their sales of seafood to the world's biggest consumers - Japan and the US - are an important part of their success

Increasing demands on wild fisheries by commercial fishing operations have caused widespread overfishing. Fish farming offers an alternative solution to the increasing market demand for fish and fish protein.

In the early 1950s, industrial countries took 80 per cent of the world's fish catch. Since then, Majority World countries have rushed to nationalize their seas and make money from exporting fish. Today, they take 64 per cent of the catch.

Fish processing is the processing of fish delivered by commercial fisheries and fish farms. The larger fish processing companies have their own fishing fleets and independent fisheries. The products of the industry are usually sold wholesale to grocery chains or to intermediaries.

Fish processing can be subdivided into two categories: fish handling (the initial processing of raw fish) and fish products manufacturing. Aspects of fish processing occur on fishing vessels, fish processing vessels, and at fish processing plants.

Fish
When the US National Academy of Sciences recently brought together many of world's leading marine biologists, they concluded that fishing - not global warming or pollution - was the greatest single threat to the diversity of life in the world's oceans.

Another natural subdivision is into primary processing involved in the filleting and freezing of fresh fish for onward distribution to fresh fish retail and catering outlets, and the secondary processing that produces chilled, frozen and canned products for the retail and catering trades.

Many people still have the impression that fish are a renewable or inexhaustible resource. But fish stocks are under more pressure than ever before: between 1950 to 90 there was a five-fold increase in the world's annual fish catch. Demand remains high - merely to maintain existing rates of fish consumption would require an extra 15.5 million tonnes of fish by 2010.

High-tech fishing fleets use props such as airplanes, radios, seafloor maps and video sonar to track down fish schools. Once they have tracked down the fish, fleets use large nets to drag up coral, the sea floor and around 27 million tons of fish that are killed and thrown overboard each year

Fisheries are estimated to currently provide 16% of the world population's protein. The flesh of many fish are primarily valued as a source of food; there are many edible species of fish. Other marine life taken as food includes shellfish, crustaceans, sea cucumber, jellyfish and roe.

In 1995, 301,000 Japanese fishers produced 6.7 million tons of fish while it took nearly six million small-scale Indian fishers to produce about five million tons

The traditional fishing industry, or artisan fishing, are terms used to describe small scale commercial or subsistence fishing practises, particularly using traditional techniques such as rod and tackle, arrows and harpoons, throw nets and drag nets, etc