Inland fisheries

                                                           Inland waters are defined by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization as the “surface water existing inland including lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, natural or artificial watercourses and reservoirs, and coastal lagoons and artificial waterbodies.”  Inland fisheries, by consequence, are the fishing activities associated with those waterbodies.  Inland fisheries “may involve capture of wild fish or raising of fish through aquaculture.” (fishionary.fisheries.org/inland-fisheries)

Inland fisheries account for 40% of global finfish production from 3% of the volume of water on earth.

For more information, please checkout The Fisheries Blog‘s post on the importance of inland fish and fisheries.