Basic Concept of

Fishery

At the end of this chapter, the students are expected to:

Lesson 1: Recognize Fishery and Its Importance
Lesson 2: Discuss the History of Fishery
Lesson 3: Distinguish the Branches of Fishery
Lesson 4: Identify the Morphology of Fish

DEFINITION OF TERMS
✓ Fishery (plural: fisheries) - is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic
species, an activity known as fishing.
✓ Tianyuan Man – are the remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit East Asia
✓ Fish Culture – the human effort of raising the maximum productivity of fish and other fishery
aquatic products and maintaining the supply of these products to satisfy human needs
✓ Fish Capture – branch of fishery science deals with the scientific method of catching fish as well
and the type of fishing gear used
✓ Fish Preservation – branch of fishery science that deals with the scientific method of preserving fish
and other fishery aquatic products to prevent spoilage.
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DEFINITION OF FISHERY AND ITS IMPORTANCE

What is FISHERY
As the time goes by, different centuries and generation are past. The original term
of fish was interpreted by various early people. The term has a different version to another
set of people. From the Proto-Indo-European (4500 BC to 2500 BC) it is used as
peysk/pisk. It was used for numbered centuries, then, the term was again change because
of the passing of generation to generation and another generation. The term in the
language of Proto-Germanic (500 BC) was fiskaz. The term in West Frisian was fisk, in
Dutch was vis, in Danish and Norwegian was fisk, in German was fisch. Old English
adopted it and later it was coined as fisc. Today, the contemporary English now term it as
fish. In our Philipinelocal term is isda.
Fish is approximately 34,000 species of vertebrate scaly-skinned animal, which
swims and found in the fresh and salt waters of the world. It breathes under the water
because of their gills, absorbing the oxygen from the water to suffice the needs of body to
live. Fish is a vertebrate being because they have a skeleton with a spine. Just like
mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish have a skeleton made from bone. But rays
and sharks have a skeleton made of a rubbery, softer substance called cartilage. A fish
wiggles its tail to swim through water. Their fins function as the steer and support their
body to stay upright. Fins are covered in skin without scale. Bony rays supported the fins
to maintain the structure and functionality of fins. A fish has an armored body by scales to
protect from the parasites and other injuries. Scales also gives the fish a reflectors and
coloration to hide and camouflage themselves from the predators’ sight.
Fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other
aquatic species, an activity known as fishing including the processing and marketing as
well as protecting and conserving fish and other fishery product for sustainable use.

VALUE OF fishery

Fishery has a vital role in the life and progress of an economy. It does provide food
which is the basic needs of mankind, yet not only sustain food and raw material but also
employment opportunities to a vast number of the population in country. It can be a
source of livelihood which can lead to contribute to micro and macro community;
supplying, sustaining food and fodder that are the basic necessities of human to live,
promoting the diplomatic relationship facilitated by trading system in local, national and
international, marketable surplus products, protect our environment and natural resources,
another source of savings of the entire national budget and basis of the economic
development of a country.
Without fishery, the economy will be at high risk to food security that may be resulted
into serious national problems. The above-mentioned statements may occur obverse and
the opposite of those things may happen.