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The term fishing broadly includes catching [[aquatic animal]]s other than fish, such as [[crustacean]]s ([[shrimp]]/[[lobster]]s/[[crab]]s), [[shellfish]], [[cephalopod]]s ([[octopus]]/[[squid]]) and [[echinoderm]]s ([[starfish]]/[[sea urchin]]s). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in [[aquaculture|controlled cultivations]] ([[fish farm]]ing). Nor is it normally applied to hunting [[aquatic mammal]]s, where terms like [[whaling]] and [[seal hunting|sealing]] are used instead.
▲ since [[hunter-gatherer]] times. It is one of the few [[food production]] activities that has persisted from [[prehistory]] into the [[contemporary history|modern age]], surviving both the [[Neolithic Revolution]] and [[technological revolution#History|successive Industrial Revolution]]s. In addition to fishing [[fish as food|for food]], people commonly fish as a [[Recreational fishing|recreational pastime]]. [[Fishing tournament]]s are held, and caught fish are sometimes kept long-term as [[taxidermy|preserved]] or [[fishkeeping|living]] [[Trophy hunting|trophies]]. When [[bioblitz]]es occur, fish are typically [[catch and release|caught, identified, and then released]]. Fishing is horrible
According to the [[United Nations]] [[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]] statistics, the total number of [[commercial fishing|commercial fishers]] and [[fish farming|fish farmers]] is estimated to be 39.0 million.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=FAO |date=2020 |title=The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020: Sustainability in Action |url=https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9229en |journal=The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture |publisher=FAO |publication-place=Rome |publication-date=2020 |pages=7|doi=10.4060/ca9229en |hdl=10535/3776 |isbn=978-92-5-132692-3 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> [[Fishing industry|Fishing industries]] and [[aquaculture]] provide direct and indirect [[employment]] to over 500 million people in [[developing countries]].<ref>[http://www.fao.org/fishery/docs/brochure/climate_change/policy_brief.pdf Fisheries and Aquaculture in our Changing Climate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023120015/http://www.fao.org/fishery/docs/brochure/climate_change/policy_brief.pdf |date=23 October 2018 }} Policy brief of the [[FAO]] for the [[UNFCCC]] [[United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009|COP-15]] in Copenhagen, December 2009.</ref> In 2005, the worldwide ''per capita'' consumption of fish captured from [[wild fisheries]] was {{convert|14.4|kg}}, with an additional {{convert|7.4|kg}} harvested from [[Fish farming|fish farms]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/fishery/ |title=Fisheries and Aquaculture |publisher=FAO |access-date=1 July 2012 |archive-date=13 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513075213/http://www.fao.org/fishery |url-status=live }} </ref>
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