Some Fishing Statistics?

Question

Does anyone know any good fishing statistics. Like about overfishing or long line fishing. Something along the lines of that.

And can you give me the website where you got them from.

Answer 1

Some Vital Facts You Should Know About Commercial Fishing

    * The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that almost 70% of the world's major fisheries are fully exploited, over-exploited, or depleted.

      Just 19 countries plus the European Union (EU) accounted for about 90% of the world's marine fisheries catch of 84.7 million tons in 1995. A further breakdown shows that the fishing nations of the EU and nine other countries took over 70% of the world total that year. In order of ranking by catch they were China, Peru, Chile, the EU, Japan, the USA, Russia, Indonesia, Thailand and Norway.

    * Up to 39 million tons of unwanted fish 'bycatch' is killed and dumped back into the sea each year because of unselective fishing practices and gear.

    * 1,654 new industrial fishing vessels totaling over one million GRT (Gross Registered Tons) were added to the world's fleet between 1991 and 1996.

    * Of the estimated 3.5 million fishing boats worldwide, only about 35,000, or 1% by number, are classified as large-scale, industrialized vessels. These ships, however, constitute about half of the capacity of the global fishing fleet (measured in tonnage), and take between half and two-thirds of all the fish caught from the world's oceans and seas.

    * According to recent FAO estimates, there are some 15 million fishers employed aboard fishing boats on the world's oceans, of whom about 90 per cent are occupied on small-scale, non-industrialized vessels.

    * World Bank and FAO studies have estimated that taxpayer-funded national subsidies to the global fishing fleet, primarily the large-scale, industrialized sector, range between 25 to 50 billion dollars each year.

    * Using nearly 50 years of data collected by the United Nations, a team of scientists has catalogued how in one ocean after another fishing fleets have first caught the big, valuable stocks, then worked their way down the food web, catching more and more of the smaller species. The scientists predicted that at the current rate of fishing, many fish stocks could be eliminated within 25 years.

    * Hundreds of thousands of seabirds are being slaughtered each year by the 3000-strong industrialized longline fishing fleet. Scientists and conservationists agree that longline fishing is a serious threat to the survival of 12 out of 14 albatross species. With up to 100 million hooks being set each year in southern hemisphere oceans alone, there is good reason to fear that, worldwide, longline fishing threatens not only albatross but other seabird species as well.

    * For many shark species, fisheries pose a high risk of serious population declines, even possible extinction for some. According to the FAO in 1994, more than one hundred million sharks are killed annually in fishing operations. Without major changes, the loss of populations of sharks, perhaps entire species may occur.

    * Over a billion people in Asia alone depend on fish and seafood as their major source of animal protein.

Answer 2

Here's a website you might find interesting.

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

A major study of 147 different fisheries around the world has found that when a stock is badly depleted, the number of juveniles that survive each year becomes highly variable – making it harder to calculate a safe catch, or to predict how long a battered stock will take to recover.

Colin Minto at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and colleagues analysed data from fisheries as different as North Sea herring, Alaska salmon, and cod on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland – once the world’s richest fishery, which has yet to recover after it crashed from overfishing in the 1990s.

Answer 3

What are you fishing for? If your fishing for regular crappies, you need to use worms, crickets, or minnows for bait. Also, however big the fish that your fishing for is.. thats how heavy the line you are using should be. Like.. if you are fishing for crappies, you should use about 20 pounds. Jigs are also good bait. It just all depends on the jigs that you buy.