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West Marine is an American company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which operates a chain of boating supply and fishing retail stores. The company has 247 retail stores in North America. West Marine also runs Blue Future [2] a non profit organization. West Marine's flagship store is in Fort Lauderdale.
In 2006, Sportsman's Guide was acquired for approximately $265 million by Redcats USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Redcats Group, which is the home-shopping group owned by French luxury and distribution group PPR (Pinault-Printemps-Redoute). [2] In 2012, Sportsman's Guide was acquired for $215 million by Northern Tool + Equipment. No job cuts ...
BPS Direct, LLC, doing business as Bass Pro Shops, is an American privately held sporting goods retailer that offers hunting, fishing, camping, and other related outdoor recreation equipment, marine manufacturing and sales, and outdoor resorts.
The industry has three principal sectors that include recreational, subsistence or traditional, and commercial fishing. [1] [6]The commercial sector comprises enterprises and individuals associated with wild-catch or aquaculture resources and the various transformations of those resources into products for sale.
An online store may also be called an e-web-store, e-shop, e-store, Internet shop, web-shop, web-store, online store, online storefront and virtual store. Mobile commerce (or m-commerce ) describes purchasing from an online retailer's mobile device-optimized website or software application ("app").
According to the FAO, "...a fishery is an activity leading to harvesting of fish.It may involve capture of wild fish or raising of fish through aquaculture." It is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats, purpose of the activities or a combination of the foregoing features".
A printed 3000-page three-volume and CD version of the Catalogue was published in 1998. That was preceded by a Catalog of the genera of recent fishes in 1990. [5] The Catalog was renamed Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes in 2019, and is now edited by Ronald Fricke, Richard van der Laan and William N. Eschmeyer. It is available online, and updated ...
Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of oceanography , marine biology , marine conservation , ecology , population dynamics , economics and management in an attempt to provide an integrated picture of fisheries.