Breakdown of total worldwide ocean catch?

[White Knight]

Percentage breakdown of total worldwide ocean catch? Can anyone direct me to, or offer, statistics that breakout total annual ocean catch as such: Total commercial fisheries—all methods; total sports fishing catch—rod and reel; total sports fishing catch—spear gun/pole? Thanks in advance....

 

[Nemrod]

No but the total taken by sportsman is miniscule in comparison to commercial ocean strippers. N

 

[Hockeynut]

There are strippers on the ocean???

 

[Nemrod]

There are strippers on the ocean???

I wish it were not true but when they drag those nets through the water virtually every living thing is killed in their path, stripped from the ocean.

The selective taking of game fish by sportsmen does have problems in that they are often the best specimens from a genetic standpoint. The individuals that are removed cannot contribute to the gene pool so that has some effect but I just cannot help but think that is a very small factor in the fishery declines when you have commercial fisherman removing everything.

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[swifttank]

I think Hockeynut was joking about the strippers.

 

[alcina]

I think Hockeynut was joking about the strippers.

I don't think hockey jokes about things like that