Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life; or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (fishing ground).

@ Kabiru Haruna, A fishery can be viewed at 2 levels, i.e. at species level or waterbody level. A fishery at species level is where you focus on one species such as Nile perch with all the activities associated with it along the value chain from conservation, catching up to consumption. At lake level, the fishing activities of all commercial species, and post harvest handling activities constitute the fishery of that water body

It means the types of crafts (mechanized/non-mechanized), and gears (active/passive) involved in the capture of targeted/non-targeted aquatic animals & plants mentioning the season/s, place & size of capture. Disposal of the catch finds a place in the theme. An important mention is also made of its Biology.

The word fishery can be defined in many ways:

1. Is a kind of occupation and industry in which fisherman can harvest fishes for different purpose.

Is the business centers where fishes are caught for commercial and market exchange for income generation

The answers given here follow the dictionary definitions of the English word "fishery". That is what the word _should_ mean.

Unfortunately, the United States Congress does not think itself bound by dictionary meanings and their Magnuson-Stevens Act uses "fishery" to mean "fish" or, more exactly, a "fishery resource". That has become standard usage in the USA, from where it is spreading around the world. In my opinion, that is a mistake, producing serious confusion.

If we return to the dictionary definitions, there are two meanings. Sivakumar Jayaprakash has written that "fishery" more commonly means "fishing ground". I expect it does in some versions of English but that has become an unusual, archaic usage in British English or North American English. Here, the usual meaning of "fishery" is the industry or activity of harvesting fish.

Yet, that leads into far more interesting questions about how we draw boundaries between one fishery and another. Should we define fisheries by target species, product types, gear types, the communities within which fishermen live and work or something else? Also: Is a fishery an activity which ends when the fish are landed or should we consider the seafood trade and the capture of the fish as parts of one whole? The answers to those questions shape the ways that people think about fisheries and hence the policy and management responses -- which in turn shape the lives of fishermen and the state of fish populations and aquatic ecosystems. The details really do matter!

Trevor Kenchington

Fishery refers to the commercial or subsistence activity of catching, processing and selling fish and other aquatic organisms from natural or man made bodies of water such as lakes , rivers and ocean.It also encompasses fishing using various fishing gears and methods,fish farming as well as research and management.simply fishery is abroad sector