The fishing industry includes any industry or activity that takes, cultures, processes, preserves, stores, transports, markets or sells fish or fish products. It is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, as well as the related harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors.[1] 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. The livelihood of over 500 million people in developing countries depends directly or indirectly on fisheries and aquaculture.[2]
The fishing industry is struggling with environmental and welfare issues, including overfishing and occupational safety.[3] Additionally, the combined pressures of climate change, biodiversity loss and overfishing endanger the livelihoods and food security of a substantial portion of the global population.[4]
- ^ FAO Fisheries Section: Glossary: Fishing industry. Retrieved 28 May 2008.
- ^ Fisheries and Aquaculture in our Changing Climate Policy brief of the FAO for the UNFCCC COP-15 in Copenhagen, December 2009.
- ^ Grant, Tavia (27 October 2017). "Sea Change". theglobeandmail.com. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
Despite safety gains in many other industries, fishing continues to have the highest fatality rate of any employment sector in Canada.
- ^ "Climate Change Threatens Commercial Fishers From Maine to North Carolina". www.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 4 September 2023.