The fishing industry is the commercial activity of
fishing and producing
fish and other
seafood products for human consumption or as input factors
in other industrial processes. According to Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics the total fish
production in the world in 2001 was 130 million tonnes. In
addition to the commercial catches, 37.9 million tonnes were
produced in aquaculture plants.
In the 1990s and 2000s it has become increasingly evident
that industrial fishing has severely depleted stocks of
certain types of ocean fish, such as cod. For more
information, see overfishing.
One fishing industry sector that appears to remain in a
good state of production is the freshwater fishing sector in
Canada. The Manitoba commercial fishing industry is
comprised of over 3,600 fisherpersons who produce 25 percent
of Canada's freshwater catch. Lake Winnipeg is the biggest
contributor of commercially landed fish species. Of the 13
fish species commercially harvested, pickerel (walleye),
Sauger, lake whitefish, northern pike, yellow perch and lake
trout are the most highly valued species. Others include
white sucker, tullibee, carp, burbot, lake sturgeon, Goldeye
and white bass.
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