commercial fisheries
Professional ocean harvesting
Commercial fisheries are operations that catch or harvest fish and other seafood for sale rather than for sport or personal consumption.
The term encompasses the entire industry infrastructure: fishing vessels, processing facilities, and the businesses that bring seafood to market.
A fishery may refer to a specific geographic area, a target species, or both: the Atlantic cod fishery, Pacific salmon fisheries.
Commercial fisheries are heavily regulated to prevent overfishing and protect marine ecosystems.
- profit marginsPercentage kept from sales
- trawlingNet-dragging fishing method
- tunaLarge edible ocean fish
- overfishingUnsustainable marine harvest
- quotasMandated numerical limits
seafood markets · longlining · salmon · cod · gillnetting · drift nets · climate change effects · shrimp · crab · labor costs · dredging · international treaties · enforcement agencies · lobster · wild caught · cold storage · mackerel · sardines
commercial fisheriesaquaculture
Farming underwater organisms
fish farming · mariculture · fish hatcheries · shellfish farming · aquaponics
commercial fisheriesfish conservation
Protecting aquatic species populations
marine sanctuaries · wildlife refuges · catch limits · sustainable fisheries
commercial fisheriesrecreational fishing
Leisure pursuit with rod
sport fishing · subsistence fishing · catch-and-release fishing · charter fishing
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