Fishing – activities for the extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources and in the cases provided for by law for the acceptance, processing, transshipment, transportation, storage and unloading of catches of aquatic biological resources, the production of fish and other products from aquatic biological resources. Fish – the main object of fishing.
Commercial fishing
The main types of fish in commercial fishing in the world, in order of decreasing catch:
Peruvian anchovy, pollock, striped tuna, sardinella, herring, Japanese mackerel, northern blue whiting, ten-horse mackerel, yellowfin tuna, Japanese anchovy, Atlantic cod, saber fish, Atlantic mackerel, European sardine, Argentine squid-illlex, squid dosadicus, mackerel , sprat Baltic and Black Sea, yellowtail, capelin, Japanese blue crab, shrimp, Mexican mehenaden, kanagurt, Far Eastern sardine.
From the commercial point of view, it is possible to divide fish: into marine life, always living in the sea; passages that conduct part of life (large) in the sea and part in rivers, where they enter fresh water for spawning; and on freshwater, living constantly in rivers, lakes, etc.
The global volume of fisheries production in sea waters in 2014 was 81.5 million tons, which is somewhat more than during the two previous years
TOP-25 of the most harvested marine fish species according to the FAO report for 2018
List of countries that catch the most fish
