Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Fisheries provide food. In industrialized nations, the overwhelming portion of seafood comes from a small number of commercial fishers and increasingly aquaculture (1). Fisheries also contribute to leisure and recreation. In developed nations, 1 in 10 people fishes for pleasure, amounting to at least 220 million recreational fishers worldwide (2, 3)—more than 5 times the number of commercial capture fishers (1). This means that the vast majority of people fishing today do so recreationally (Fig. 1).
Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Arizona State University, Yale University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Carleton University, University of Washington, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, University of Calgary, Colorado State University
Language: English
Subfield: Aquatic Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2922835546