The word “fishery” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone working in the fishing industry or to refer to a place where fish is processed and/or sold. For example, “The local fishery provides the freshest seafood in town.”.
Quite the opposite: this fishery enjoys the prestigious protection of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), with Prince Charles, the Queen of Jordan and many large corporations among its patrons, benefactors and champions.
When I first stumbled upon mangrove forests as a journalist in 1992, visiting several fishing communities along the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand, I noticed a common thread of problems faced by the fisherfolk: outside investors were ruining their lands and livelihoods by cutting mangroves to make way for shrimp farms, devastating their local fishery and agriculture.
Anything at or just below the surface of the seabed the benthic zone, in fishery parlance gets dragged up.
FISHERY statistics tend, just like fish, to be rather slippery.
One fishery in four around the world has collapsed in the past 50 years.
The other is to accept the advice, and then discover it isn't good enough.For decades the Atlantic bluefin-tuna fishery has fallen into the former camp.
At the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona last week both Spain (an important tuna-fishing nation) and Japan (an important tuna-buying nation) supported the closure of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery until stocks rise.
The fishery is promising, especially since pirates have scared off illegal tuna boats.
Where mariners' only thought was once to catch fish before the next man, they now want to catch fewer fish than they are allowed to because conservation increases the value of the fishery and their share in it.
The ITQ system halves the chance of a fishery collapsing.By giving fishermen a long-term interest in the health of the fishery, ITQs have transformed fishermen from rapacious predators into stewards and policemen of the resource.
Management of the fishery has improved, concedes Patricia Majluf, a zoologist at Lima's Cayetano Heredia University, but she says there is still not enough information about stocks to know whether it is sustainable.At the same time, some in the fishing industry have realised that selling anchoveta as food for people, rather than as fertiliser or animal feed, is more profitable.
