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Fishing is understood as that activity that is based on the collection of different types of animals and plants from the aquatic world in order to use them as food primarily or as sources of resources for various industries such as cosmetics or medicine. Fishing is one of the oldest activities that human beings developed since in its essence it does not require too much infrastructure and, depending on the area in which it is carried out, the abundance of resources can be very important.

Fishing is a very important activity in those regions in which aquatic resources are abundant since the country It has extensive coasts, that it is an island and is then completely surrounded by Water, that has the presence of important lakes or very abundant river basins, etc.

To carry out the fishing process, the human being can use various methods and resort to various tools. At present, the complex world in which we live means that very primitive and manual forms of fishing coexist in which individuals belonging to small communities fish fish for fish in a differentiated way with much more modern and complex ways in which They use large machinery and boats that can catch large quantities of fish and other types of animals or plants aquatic.

This situation of uncontrolled, excessive and careless fishing for aquatic species is largely responsible for various alterations that the world's aquatic environments are experiencing. suffering, mainly with regard to the extinction of many species of fish or other animals that are trapped in large nets and then discarded, the consequent alteration of the ecosystem, the appearance of aquatic pests, the contamination of the waters and the atmosphere, etc.