Commercial Fishing

"Commercial Fishing"," If one wanted to eat fish, all he needed to do was to find and capture his prey.
 As time changed, the way of hunting fishes has also changed.


The demand for fish and sea produce grew along with the increasing population.
 A range of different species of fishes has become readily available for consumption whenever someone wanted to.
 Of these three sectors, Commercial is probably the widest and largest division as it consists of different chains of processes such as:


Fishes may be harvested or gathered through commercial fishing or fish-farming.
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 Fishing industry harvest a range of fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, aquatic plants, etc.
 Alarmingly though, the increasing demand of industrial fishing has depleted stocks of certain ocean fish like cod and endangered some species critically exposing them to extinction.
 Mariculture is the same process done in marine environments, while Agraculture is the production of kelp/seaweed and other algae.
 Fish-farming which involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosed foods is an alternative solution to the increasing market demand for fish and its proteins.
 These fishes delivered by commercial fisheries and fish-farms are sorted out in this chain.

Fish handling is a subcategory of fish processing where the initial processing of raw fish happens such as filleting and freezing of fish prior to distribution.
 These processes may occur on fishing vessels, fish processing vessels or processing plants.
 Isinglass is used to clarify wine and beer.

Fish marketing is the selling of fishes and sea produces in marketplaces, wet markets and supermarkets.
 There is also the live fish food trade that links fishing communities to various markets.



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