Fishing🐟🐠

About three-fourths of our earth is covered with water. The rivers and oceans of the world are full of fishes. These fishes are an important source of our food, and millions of people are engaged in catching fish. This is not just a hobby but an occupation and a flourishing trade. The fisherman sometimes work individually in their small boats and sometimes work together on large boats with machinery needed to catch fish from deep waters. They stay at sea for days and even weeks and return with tons of fish. These ships have proper arrangements for storing the fish so that "catch" is not spoilt before reaching the market.

Marine fishing is done in the Arabian Sea along the coast. In fishing season, boats of all sizes go out, face the dangers of the sea and catch fish. Sometimes the weather turns rough without any warning. These boats are then at the mercy of the storms against which they are quite helpless.

The government is now taking keen interest in improving and modernizing the fish industry. Fishermen are given loans to buy bigger and better boats or trawlers so that they can go farther from the shore and fish in deeper waters. Fishing nets of good quality are being made available at low prices. Fish harbours and fish markets are being set up. Weather-stations have been built along the coast and on off shore islands to warn the fishing boats of storms. Some boats are now also fitted with wireless receivers. A Fisheries Training Institute and a Fisheries Technology Laboratory have also been established at Karachi. Several by-products are obtained from fish, for example, glue, manure and liver oil. Fishing is one of our most important industries. But chemical waste and oil thrown in the rivers and the sea are causing damage to the freshwater and marine life.