🐟 Fishing series: From the fishing rod to ultra-productive fish farms: Difference between revisions

In comparaison to the Aquaculture sector, the diversity of species resulting from Capture fishing is much larger. The first reason being that eventhough specific marine areas can  concentrate a large percentage of a particular species, a fishing boat will, however, hardly be able select exactly which species will end up in its net. This explains why fishing stalls offer a much larger variety of species than that of the butcher's. The second being that the choice of species farmed in Aquaculture depends on offer and demand, whereas capture Fishery relies only of geography.   

Hard fishing, also refered to as “dragging arts”, relies on boats dragging nets behind. Called trawlers, these fishing boats call on a heavy use of petrol and only allow a rough selection of the species they capture as they scrape waters at a large scale. If the depth of the fishing method may vary, nets are more than often ballasted with heavy weights which have a destructive impact on the seabed and marine biodiversity as they can violently come in contact with rocks and wild species.