The fishing industry includes any industry or activity that takes, cultures, processes, preserves, stores, transports, markets or sells fish or fish products. It is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, as well as the related harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors. The commercial activity is aimed at the delivery of fish and other seafood products for human consumption or as input factors in other industrial processes. The livelihood of over 500 million people in developing countries depends directly or indirectly on fisheries and aquaculture.
Double-rigged shrimp trawler hauling in the nets
Modern Spanish tuna purse seiner in the Seychelles Islands
Using a special tuna knife at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo
Fresh seafood laid out on one of several floating barge vendors at the Maine Avenue Fish Market in Washington D.C.
Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often pursue fish far into the ocean under adverse conditions. Large-scale commercial fishing is called industrial fishing.
Commercial crab fishing at the Elbe River in June 2007.
Trawl fishermen wearing personal flotation devices in a January 2009 trial
San Miguel Rescue - The Coast Guard Rescued Three Commercial Fishermen
NIOSH prototype emergency stop (e-stop) being tested on the purse seiner F/V Lake Bay.