fishery

the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish or other aquatic organisms
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Summary

fishery is an industry[1]. fishery draws 2,162 Wikipedia views per month (industry category, ranking #47 of 199).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: economic activity[3]
  • Subclass of: enterprise[4], fishing and aquaculture[5]
  • Part of: group in classification of productive activities[6]
  • Commons category: Fisheries[7]
  • Has part(s): marine fishing[8], Freshwater fishing[9], fish farming[10], artisanal fishing[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fisheries[12]
  • Product or material produced: fish[13]
  • Described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[14], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19], The Encyclopedia Americana[20], The American Cyclopædia[21], New International Encyclopedia[22], Meyer’s Universum, Elfter Band[23]
  • Partially coincident with: commercial fishing[24]
  • Topic has template: Template:Commercial fish topics[25]
  • International Standard Industrial Classification code Rev.4: 031[26]
  • Different from: Fishery[27], wild fishery[28], fishing ground[29]
  • Uses: fishing ground[30]
  • Name: pêche[31], Fischerei[32], Риболов[33], Rybolov[34], Fiskeri[35], Kalapüük[36], Fishing[37], Αλιεία[38], Pesca[39], Visserij[40], Balıkçılık[41], Рыболовство[42], Fiske og fangst[43], Žvejyba[44]
  • Studied by: fisheries science[45]

Why It Matters

fishery has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] fishery is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Ricardosdag · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → marine fishing, Freshwater fishing, fish farming +1
    Salzburgwiki id → 79678
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): artisanal fishing"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → qAJlm, 15y8gk
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → group in classification of productive activities
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Fishery, wild fishery, fishing ground
    Product or material produced → fish
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|12 */ Yso id: 10003, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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