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Following is a sortable table of the world fisheries' harvest in 2022. The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Capture includes fish , crustaceans , molluscs , etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Fishing industry. Double-rigged shrimp trawler hauling in the nets. 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 with other countries, the 200 nautical miles (370 km) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of the United States gives its fishing industry special fishing rights. [6] It covers 11.4 million square kilometres (4.38 million sq mi), which is the second largest zone in the world, exceeding the land area of the United States. [5]
In addition, 1.3 million tons of aquatic plants (seaweed etc.) were captured in wild fisheries and 14.8 million tons were produced by aquaculture. [2] The number of individual fish caught in the wild has been estimated at 0.97-2.7 trillion per year (not counting fish farms or marine invertebrates). [3]
As with other countries, New Zealand's 200 nautical miles exclusive economic zone gives its fishing industry special fishing rights. [1] It covers 4.1 million square kilometres. This is the sixth largest zone in the world, and is fourteen times the land area of New Zealand. [2] [3] The New Zealand zone has a rich and unusually complex ...
Aquaculture, the farming of fish in ponds, lakes and tanks, accounts for two-thirds of China's reported output. China's 2005 reported harvest was 32.4 million tonnes, more than 10 times that of the second-ranked nation, India, which reported 2.8 million tonnes. [2] The country's aquaculture market is forecasted to reach a projected market size ...
Fishing in Chile is a major industry with a total catch of 4,442,877 tons of fish in 2006. [1] As of 2010, Chile has the seventh largest commercial catch in the world. [ 2 ] With over 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of viable coastline, fishing has been a vital resource for small-scale business and family development for hundreds of years.
The prize's influence is growing rapidly, as this year’s 15 finalists were selected from nearly 2,500 entries across 139 countries—the largest pool of applicants in the prize’s history ...