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The 'fishing industry' is the commercial activity aimed at delivery of fish and other seafood products for human consumption or as input factors in other industrial processes. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics the total fish production in the world in 2001 was 130 million tonnes. In addition to the commercial catches, 37.9 million tonnes were produced in aquaculture plants.
In the 1990s and 2000s it has become increasingly evident that industrial fishing has severely depleted stocks of certain types of ocean fish, such as cod.
One fishing industry sector that appears to remain in a good state of production is the freshwater fishing sector in Canada.
The fishing insustry comprises of the following chain:

★ Commercial fishing (fisheries)

★ Fish processing

★ Fish products sales

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Fishing industry in Canada

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Fishing industry in Canada

The Manitoba commercial fishing industry is comprised of over 3,600 fisherpersons who produce 25 percent of Canada's freshwater catch. Lake Winnipeg is the biggest contributor of commercially landed fish species. Of the 13 fish species commercially harvested, pickerel (walleye), Sauger, lake whitefish, northern pike, yellow perch and lake trout are the most highly valued species. Others include white sucker, tullibee, carp, burbot, lake sturgeon, Goldeye and white bass.

See also

★ Clam digging

★ Deep sea fish

★ Environmental effects of fishing

★ Fish

★ Fish farming

★ Fish migration

★ Fishery

★ Fishing

★ Fishing capacity

★ Ichthyology (the study of fish)

★ Lobster fishing

★ List of fish families

★ List of fish common names

★ Marine aquarium fish species

★ Overfishing

★ Trawling

External links

★ FAO Fisheries Information

★ Fish database (FishBase)

★ American Fisheries Society

★ NOAA Fisheries Service

★ One Fish