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Forage fish are sometimes referred to as bait fish or feeder fish. Bait fish is a term used particularly by recreational fishermen, although commercial fisherman also catch fish to bait longlines and traps. Forage fish is a fisheries term, and is used in the context of fisheries. Bait fish, by contrast, are fish that are caught by humans to use ...
Farming carnivorous fish such as salmon, however, does not always reduce pressure on wild fisheries, such farmed fish are usually fed fishmeal and fish oil extracted from wild forage fish. The 2008 global returns for fish farming recorded by the FAO totaled 33.8 million tonnes worth about US$60 billion. [6]
There is a bait fish industry in North America, supplying mainly recreational fishermen, worth up to one billion dollars each year. [1] For the southern United States alone Mittelmark et al. 1993 reports this was $56 million in 1987. [2]
In 2006, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that 30.0 million U.S. anglers, 16 years old and older, took 403 million fishing trips, spending $42.0 billion in fishing related expenses. Of these, 25.4 million were freshwater anglers who took 337 million trips and spent $26.3 billion.
Freshwater fish River eels: 11,939 16 138 12 374 11 444 10 516 10 746 10 463 Finfish: Salmons, trouts, smelts: 913,327 805 154 891 042 809 873 966 097 880 261 1 031 141 Migratory fish: Shads: 788,770 860 346 665 284 589 692 524 800 569 160 605 548 Finfish: Miscellaneous migratory fishes: 75,921 83 328 75 650 79 538 79 465 68 077 65 817 Demersal ...
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However, an even more extensive and sustainable coastal resource is forage fish, such as anchovies and herring. This fishery is an integral part of the pole and line tuna fishery, since tuna feed on the forage fish. Future development of the traditional pole and line tuna fishery depends on the availability of this bait fishery.
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