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Fishing and its types
Fishing is carried out in many parts of the world and there are three types of fishing based on the purpose. They are artisan fishing, commercial fishing and recreational fishing. Artisan fishing is small scale low technology fishing.
It is mainly carried out by coastal or ethnic groups and they use many traditional techniques such as:
- rods
- tackles
- arrows
- harpoons
- dragnets
This type is less intense than the commercial type. Northern coast of Mozambique, Oostduinkerke of Belgium, Koh Tao of Thailand, Srilanka are some of the places where artisan fishing is more common. Recreational fishing is otherwise called as sport fishing is done for pleasure and sometimes as a competitive sport. Most often, such fishing is done with the help of rod, line, hooks.
Terminal tackles such as weights, floats are also used sometimes. Big-game fishing is a term used to denote the catching of many water species such as sharks and tuna. Kayak fishing is gaining popularity these days, and is used in areas that cannot be reached from land or boat. Most of the sport fishing is done by males. There are many sport fishing methods and it depends on the area, species and the resources available to the angler. Marlin, tuna, shark are some of the water game fishes. The techniques used by the recreational fishers are spearfishing, hand gathering, netting and angling.
They use a fishing rod with a line and hook in the end. There are many rules to be followed in this form of fishing and the main rule is the prohibition of nets. There are even competitions for finding who have caught more weighed fishes. Commercial fishing is used for profit. The fish are caught deep in the sea under adversarial conditions. Large ships and nets are used more common. Lobster, krill, crab, squid, tuna, cod, mollusks, crustaceans are some of the species harvested by commercial fishermen. This article describes the various types of fishing.