fishing industry

  • 1Fishing industry — Modern Spanish tuna purse seiner in the Seychelles Islands The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products. It is… …

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  • 2Fishing industry —    With the world’s fourth longest coastline, access to the landlocked Caspian Sea, and more than 2 million rivers, Russia’s fishing industry is one of the most important worldwide. Annually, Russia harvests more than 3 million tons of fish, with …

    Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • 3fishing industry — Taking, processing, and marketing of fish and other seafood from oceans, rivers, and lakes. Fishing is one of the primary forms of food production; it ranks with farming and probably predates it. The fishing industry employs more than 5 million… …

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  • 4Fishing industry in Scotland — found fishing to be of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than to the rest of the UK. Scotland has just under 8.6% of the UK population but lands at its ports over 60% of the total UK catch of fishref|Royal.Many of… …

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  • 5Fishing industry in New Zealand — Sea floor map around New Zealand. As with other countries, New Zealand’s 200 nautical mile 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… …

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  • 6Fishing industry in Canada — Canada has one of the world s most valuable commercial fishing industries, worth more than CDN $5 billion a year and providing more than 130,000 jobs to Canadians. It is the economic mainstay of approximately 1,500 communities in rural and… …

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  • 7Fishing industry of South Korea — Until the 1960s, agriculture and fishing were the dominant industries of the economy of South Korea.Organizations involved in the development of the fishing industry in South Korea include …

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  • 8fishing industry —    Two of the main reasons usually cited as favourable to the growth of superstition are dangerous working conditions and the degree on which success/failure is affected by luck rather than skill. Fishing has clearly fulfilled both these criteria …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 9fishing industry — includes both recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, and the harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 10fishing industry — branch that deals with raising fish and drawing them out from the pools that they are raised in …

    English contemporary dictionary