The Commercial Fishing Industry

Today's podcast takes a look at some vocabulary you can use to talk about the commercial fishing industry.  Fishery: the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish. Wild fishery: a natural body of water with a fish or other aquatic animal population that can be harvested for its commercial value. Freshwater fishery: Fishery in ponds, reservoirs, lakes, rivers, and other inland waterways. The opposite of freshwater is salty water, by the way. Ocean fisheries: Fishery in the oceans, in saltwater. Aquaculture: Basically, it is farming in water. Aquaculture is breeding, raising, and harvesting fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants. Related words are are fish farming and pisciculture. Fishing season: The legally established time period when fishing is allowed. Fishing quota: An assigned share of a fish catch by weight to an individual or enterprise. Authorities try to prevent overfishing by establishing fishing quotas. Bycatch: is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species. Factory ship: ship accompanying a group of fishing vessels known as a fishing fleet, with facilities to process the catch. Fish meal: ground dried fish used as fertilizer or animal feed. Overfishing: the practice of catching fish faster than they can reproduce. Moratorium on fishing: This is a ban on fishing, or in other words, a temporary or permanent stop to fishing.