Small-scale fishing
Fishing by individuals, families and villages from small boats or the shore, which employs most of the world's fishers.
Also: artisanal fishing, traditional fishing
Most of the world's fishers work in small-scale fisheries: from canoes, catamarans and small motor boats, with gillnets, hooks, traps, cast nets or shore seines, close to home. In India, fishing villages along the coast use craft such as the kattumaram of Tamil Nadu, and the Chinese fishing nets of Kochi are a famous shore-operated net. Small-scale fishers land much of the fish eaten locally but often have weak rights over the waters they fish. The United Nations named 2022 the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture.