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fisheries  

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  • Fisheries encompass the variety of human activities to harvest aquatic animals and plants. The term includes the harvest of fish per se as well as crustaceans, seaweeds, mollusks, and marine mammals, but not aquaculture. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Fisheries]

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