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The 70 wild species shown in this table total 41,925,250 tonnes. Other wild species total 49,410,980 for a world total of 91,336,230 tonnes of wild, captured animals. [2] The 31 cultivated species shown in this table total 45,252,999 tonnes.
Frozen tuna in the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo Self-serve display at a New England fish market. Customers use tongs to select their fish, then place it in a plastic tub for transfer to either the checkout counter or the fileting station. The following is an incomplete list of notable fish markets. (See also a list of fish market articles.)
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
The Chinese politician Fan Li was credited with authorship of The Fish-Breeding Classic, [18] the earliest-known treatise on fish farming. During the 7th- to 10th-century Tang dynasty , the farming of common carp was banned because the Chinese word for common carp ( 鯉 ) sounded like the emperors' family name, Li ( 李 ).
A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products. It can be dedicated to wholesale trade between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both. Retail fish markets, a type of wet market, often sell street food as well.
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Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.