Small-scale fishing
In contrast to large- scale fishing, small-scale fishing is a form of fishing that is described in fishing law. In earlier times, small-scale fishing was divided into different forms.
Explanation
The term “manual fishing” is no longer used in today's fishing law, although small-scale fishing is often the subject of kitchen fishing rights .
Small-scale fishing includes the following fishing equipment : fish traps , gill nets , fishing rods , etc.
Small-scale fishing is usually used for the self-sufficiency of fishermen , anglers and their families as well as for small businesses such as B. Restaurants. Small-scale fishing is often also practiced as a hobby. The meaning is therefore to be understood regionally and locally. The division of manual fishing into sideline fishing and coupled fishing, which was common in the past, is no longer common today. It is possible that it was used only locally in the lowland area of the rivers in northern Germany. It is therefore no longer possible to understand with absolute certainty what was understood by this term in 1920.
history
Small-scale fishing has been the basis of the fishing industry since man has been fishing. This was especially true in inland rivers and lakes as well as in coastal waters. All the aforementioned devices were used for catching. With the onset of industrialization , fishing also changed. In the industrialized countries , small-scale fishing degenerated and replaced by large-scale fishing, which was more easily able to meet people's needs. This made fish considerably cheaper and accessible to a wider section of the population than food. However, small-scale fishing has survived, especially inland and in poorer countries.
today
There are currently around 100 million small-scale fishermen worldwide. In contrast, only around 500,000 people work in large-scale fisheries. Nevertheless, small-scale fishermen generate around 45% of the fish caught worldwide. That corresponds to around 20 million tons of fish. Most of the small-scale fishermen live mainly in the third world . In Europe and in all industrialized countries, small-scale fishing has become largely uninteresting for the production process. Small-scale fishing is mostly only practiced as a hobby. Basically, small-scale fishing is only of regional and local importance. In some countries there has been a move towards housing fishermen in cooperatives in order to make small-scale fishing interesting for the export industry.
Individual evidence
- ^ Illustrated fishing lexicon. J. Neumann Publishing House, Neudamm 1936
- ↑ Seligo - Fishing in rivers, lakes and beach waters of Central Europe. Handbook of Inland Fisheries, Volume 5, 1925