Fishing Trivia Questions With Answers
According to United Nations FAO statistics,
what is the total number of commercial fishermen
and fish farmers estimated to be?
A: 38 million.
Where do fisheries and aquaculture provide
direct and indirect employment to over 500
million people?
A: In developing countries.
What was the worldwide per capita consumption of
fish captured from wild fisheries in 2005?
A: 14.4 kilograms, with an additional 7.4
kilograms harvested from fish farms.
Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back
to how many years ago?
A: About 40,000 years ago.
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Who designed an improved fishing hook in 1655
that remains relatively unchanged to this day?
A: Charles Kirby.
What did he call a hook he invented with an
offset point which is still used today?
A: The Kirby bend.
The 18th century was mainly an era of
consolidation of the techniques developed when?
A: In the previous century.
Running rings began to appear along the fishing
rods, which gave anglers what?
A: Greater control over the cast line.
Jointed rods became common from when?
A: The middle of the century.
Bamboo came to be used for what?
A: The top section of the rod, giving it greater
strength and flexibility.
It was the development of inexpensive fiberglass
rods, synthetic fly lines, and monofilament
leaders in the early 1950s that revived what?
A: The popularity of fly fishing.
Recreational and sport fishing are fishing
primarily for what?
A: Pleasure or competition.
What is sport fishing, sometimes called game
fishing?
A: Recreational fishing where the primary reward
is the challenge of finding and catching the
fish.
Commercial fishing methods have become very
efficient using what type of equipment?
A: Large nets and sea-going processing
factories.
Individual fishing quotas and international
treaties seek to control what?
A: The species and quantities caught.
A small number of fish species support what?
A: The majority of the world's fisheries.
What is the principal form of aquaculture?
A: Fish farming.
It involves raising fish commercially in what?
A: Tanks or enclosures, usually for food.
A facility that releases juvenile fish into the
wild is generally referred to as a what?
A: Fish hatchery.
What types of fish species are raised in fish
farms?
A: Salmon, carp, tilapia, catfish and trout.
Fish farming offers an alternative solution to
what?
A: The increasing market demand for fish and
fish protein .
Over one billion people rely on fish as their
what?
A: Primary source of animal protein.
Fish are also collected live for what other
uses?
A: Research or the aquarium trade.
