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Fishing is the activity of catching fish from natural or stocked bodies of water using various techniques. It has been an important part of human culture for a long time. While fish are caught for food, they are also caught recreationally and kept as trophies. However, certain fishing practices like blast fishing and cyanide fishing can damage habitats. Overfishing, which is fishing at a rate that exceeds a species' ability to replenish, can lead to resource depletion and impact entire ecosystems. The ability of fisheries to recover from overfishing depends on the ecosystem conditions remaining suitable.

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Fishing is the activity of catching fish from natural or stocked bodies of water using various techniques. It has been an important part of human culture for a long time. While fish are caught for food, they are also caught recreationally and kept as trophies. However, certain fishing practices like blast fishing and cyanide fishing can damage habitats. Overfishing, which is fishing at a rate that exceeds a species' ability to replenish, can lead to resource depletion and impact entire ecosystems. The ability of fisheries to recover from overfishing depends on the ecosystem conditions remaining suitable.

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Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

Fish are often caught as wildlife from the


natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as
ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques include hand-gathering,
spearing, netting, angling, shooting and trapping, as well as more destructive and often
illegal techniques such as electrocution, blasting and poisoning.

Fishing has been an important part of human culture since hunter-gatherer times, and is
one of the few food production activities that have persisted from prehistory into the
modern age, surviving both the Neolithic Revolution and successive Industrial
Revolutions. In addition to being caught to be eaten for food, fish are caught as
recreational pastimes. Fishing tournaments are held, and caught fish are sometimes kept
long-term as preserved or living trophies. When bioblitzes occur, fish are typically
caught, identified, and then released.

Environmental impacts of the fishing industry include overfishing, changed age


structures, bycatch, ghost fishing, habitat damage and impacts on the food web. Fishing
above the maximum sustainable yield (around half of the population's carrying capacity)
can lead to population decline.

The environmental impact of fishing includes issues such as the availability of fish,
overfishing, fisheries, and fisheries management; as well as the impact of industrial
fishing on other elements of the environment, such as bycatch.These issues are part of
marine conservation, and are addressed in fisheries science programs. According to a
2019 FAO report, global production of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic
animals has continued to grow and reached 172.6 million tonnes in 2017, with an
increase of 4.1 percent compared with 2016.There is a growing gap between the supply
of fish and demand, due in part to world population growth.

Some fishing techniques cause habitat destruction.Blast fishing and cyanide fishing,
which are illegal in many places, harm surrounding habitats.Blast fishing refers to the
practice of using explosives to capture fish.Cyanide fishing refers to the practice of
using cyanide to stun fish for collection. These two practices are commonly used for the
aquarium trade and the live fish food trade.These practices are destructive because they
impact the habitat that the reef fish live on after the fish have been removed.

Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a
rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the
overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming
increasingly underpopulated in that area. Overfishing can occur in water bodies of any
sizes, such as ponds, wetlands, rivers, lakes or oceans, and can result in resource
depletion, reduced biological growth rates and low biomass levels. Sustained
overfishing can lead to critical depensation, where the fish population is no longer able
to sustain itself. Some forms of overfishing, such as the overfishing of sharks, has led to
the upset of entire marine ecosystems.

Types of overfishing include: growth overfishing, recruitment overfishing, ecosystem


overfishing.

The ability of a fishery to recover from overfishing depends on whether its overall
carrying capacity and the variety of ecological conditions are suitable for the recovery.
Dramatic changes in species composition can result in an ecosystem shift, where other
equilibrium energy flows involve species compositions different from those that had
been present before the depletion of the original fish stock. For example, once trout
have been overfished, carp might exploit the change in competitive equilibria and take
over in a way that makes it impossible for the trout to re-establish a breeding
population.

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