Fishing...
Is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild.
Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting,
angling and trapping.
Fishing may include catching other aquatic animals, such as molluscs,
cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally
applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, and marine
mammals, such as whales, where the term whaling is more appropriate.
According to United Nations FAO statistics, the total number of
commercial fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million.
Fisheries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over
500 million people in developing countries.[1] In 2005, the worldwide per
capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms,
with an additional 7.4 kilograms harvested from fish farms.[2] In addition to
providing food, modern fishing is also a recreational pastime.