fishing
Sign in to saveFishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (freshwater or marine), but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include trawling, longlining, jigging, hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting and poisoning.
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Fishing is the activity of catching fish, which people do in natural bodies of water like rivers and oceans as well as in man-made or stocked locations such as ponds and reservoirs. People use many different techniques to fish, ranging from common methods like angling and netting to more destructive approaches that are often illegal, such as electrocution and poisoning.
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28 sectionsContents
- History
- Trawling
- Recreational fishing
- Techniques
- Tackle
- Fishing vessels
- Traditional fishing
- Recreational fishing
- Fishing industry
- Commercial fishing
- Fish farms
- Fish products
- Fish marketing
- Fisheries management
- Sustainability
- Animal welfare concerns
- Plastic pollution
- Cultural impact
- Community
- Economic
- Semantic
- Religious
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (freshwater or marine), but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include trawling, longlining, jigging, hand-gathering, spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting and poisoning.
The term fishing is also used more broadly to include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp/lobsters/crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus/squid) and echinoderms (starfish/sea urchins). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in controlled cultivations (fish farming). Nor is it normally applied to hunting aquatic mammals, where terms like whaling and sealing are used instead.