Some facts about fishing

• The total number of commercial fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million in the world.
• Fisheries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people.
• In addition to providing food, modern fishing is also a recreational pastime.
• Fishing dates back to, at least, the beginning of the Paleolithic period.
• The term fishing can also be applied to methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs and edible marine invertebrates.
• Recreational fishing has conventions, rules, licensing restrictions and laws that limit the way in which fish may be caught.
• Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture.
• About ninety percent of the fish are caught by ten percent of the fisherman.