TSIC 031—Fishing

Where 031 sits

1. A Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries.
2. 03 Fisheries and aquaculture
3. 031 Fishing

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 0311 Marine fisheries
• 0312 Freshwater fishing

What 031 includes

• "Aquatic fishing" is the hunting, capture, and gathering for the transfer or collection of aquatic life (especially fish, mollusks, and crustaceans), including marine, coastal, or freshwater plants, both for human consumption and for other purposes, using hands or various fishing tools (e.g., nets, hooks, seines, and other fixed tools) and other stationary tools (e.g., traps, seines). These activities can be carried out along tidal coastlines (e.g., fishing for bivalves, oysters, or pearls) or along the coast in general using homemade nets or digging tools, or more commonly by commercial fishing vessels along the coast or at sea.
• Aquatic fishing differs from aquaculture (group 032) in that aquatic animals caught from natural sources are considered a common resource that everyone has a right to use. Regardless of whether the right to use the resources is legal or not, such activities also include catching aquatic animals in bodies of water where aquatic species have been released.

031 in other systems