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Following is a sortable table of the world fisheries' harvest of aquatic plants for 2005. The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Countries whose total harvest was less than 100,000 tons are not included.
Recreational fishing by country (4 C) Fishing vessels by country (7 C) + Fishing in the Soviet Union (1 C, 10 P) A. Fishing in Argentina (1 P) Fishing in Australia (5 ...
Part of the local fishing fleet moored in the harbour of Scarborough, England. A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels.The term may be used of all vessels operating out of a particular port, all vessels engaged in a particular type of fishing (as in the "tuna fishing fleet"), or all fishing vessels of a country or region.
Fishing in Angola was a major and growing industry before independence from Portugal in 1975. In the early 1970s, there were about 700 fishing boats, and the annual catch was more than 300,000 tons. Including the catch of foreign fishing fleets in Portuguese Angola's waters, the combined annual catch was estimated at over 1 million tons.
In 2022 the world fishing fleet was estimated at 4.9 million vessels in 2022, down from a peak of 5.3 million in 2019, two-thirds of which were motorized. The largest part of the global fishing fleet is found in upper-middle-income (41%) and lower-middle-income (39%) countries, followed by high-income (11%) and low-income countries (8%). [21]
Sustainable reef net fishing is a salmon harvesting technique created and used by Lummi and Coast Salish Indigenous people over 1,000 years. In WA’s northern waters, Lummi keep sustainable ...
The sanctions, imposed in 2017 in response to the country’s nuclear tests, were intended to punish North Korea by not allowing it to sell fishing rights in its waters in exchange for valuable ...
More than one third of the worlds longline tuna fishing vessels are operated by Taiwanese companies with the total strength of the distant waters fishing fleet at more than 2,000 vessels. The fishing industry is estimated to be worth approximately two billion dollars. [27] Taiwan's ocean fisheries sector employs 350,000 people and there are ...