Commercial Fishing Operations

Images of fishermen at work on boats, handling traps and fishing equipment, with a focus on the sea, fishing gear, and the labor involved in marine catch.

Lobsterman, Casco Bay, Maine.

Slovenia. Piran harbor. Fisherman working on his boat.

Crew and dog working on the water in aquaculture oyster farm

An Oyster Restoration Volunteers Preparing To Move Oysters On To Their Artificial Reef In The Great Bay

Aquaculture, Grouper fish populating with new fish from breeding floating ponds, Aru Islands, Arafura Sea, Moluccas, Indonesia

Pens for Southern bluefin tuna, Port Lincoln, Spencer Gulf, South Australia

Bait ready to be loaded onto a fishing boat in Newlyn harbour.

Salmon fisherman in Kamchatka Salmon fisherman in Kamchatka

Japan, Hokkaido Island, Shiretoko Peninsula, Rausu, Harbor, Fishing Boat, Fishermen Working

Shrimp FISHERMAN throwing small fish overboard. North sea, Belgium.

Fishermen haul in a net full of sockeye, Bristol Bay, Alaska/n

Salmon fisherman setting their fishing gear, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA

Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) farm, pens at coast, Shetland Islands, Scotland, april

Fishermen hauling large nets on boat inside netted herring pools; Seal Cove, New Brunswick, Canada

Trawaler, fishing boat, fishing, hauling in the net, Flateyri, Vestfiroir, Westfjords, North-West Iceland, Iceland, Europe

Roman Mielewczyk, 25, Polish seasonal worker and eel fisherman employed by Fischerei Grube and Stoef GBR in Hoopte, throwing out an anchor for a fish trap, Upper Elbe river near Winsen Luhe, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

An oyster tonger rakes a pile of oysters onto the front of his handmade boat, Apalachicola, Florida.

Farm salmon fishing in Norway. Norway is the biggest producer of farmed salmon in the world, with more than one million tonnes produced each year.

Large-scale nets for breeding seabass set up in the open sea at a fish farm off of Ugljan Island, Croatia, Europe

Bristol Bay set net commercial fishermen near Dillingham, Alaska

USA, Louisiana, Atchafalaya Basin, Delcambre (Iberia Parish), fishermen dock boats with catch in buckets for sale (MR & PR).

Commercial fisherman untangle sockeye salmon from a gillnet aboard a commercial fishing boat Bristol Bay Alaska

Albian Sands Tailings Pond, Fort McMurray, Canada.

Ireland, Connemara region, Bunowen Harbour, drying nets

Fishermen living on the Bagan fishing platform, Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

Fishing port, Punta Umbria, Huelva province, Region of Andalusia, Spain, Europe.

Net to fish the shrimp Vietnam

Cape purse seiner commercial fishing vessel Nicholas Michael draws a net full of Pacific Herring tight during the first 2006 Sitka Sac Roe Herring fishery opener on the north side of Middle island in Sitka Sound, March 2006. Southeast Alaska.

Close-up of a fishing net in a fishing boat

A woman collects oysters from the Brewster Town oyster beds.; Brewster, Massachusetts, USA.

Draining the tanks in autumn, fishing, sorting the fish, Malsaucy pond, Sermamagny, Territoire de Belfort, France

Fisherman unloading Gooey Ducks from his fish boat in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Detail of commercial fishing boat equipment at the dock.

India, Kerala, Cochin, fishing nets

Crab cutter in the North Sea off Buesum, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Young man working on the water in aquaculture oyster farm maintenance

USA, Florida, Tarpon Springs, Greek-immigrant settled sponge fishing town, natural sponges on sponge-diving boat

Asia, Middle East, Iran, Hormozgan province. Fishermen

Shrimp trawlers in the harbour, Spieka near Nordholz, North Sea coast of Lower Saxony, Germany

Workers on salmon farm in rural lake

Fishing port, Isla Cristina, Huelva province, Region of Andalusia, Spain, Europe.

Fishermen launching their boats at dawn on Nan San island, Guangdong province, China, November 2015 Editorial use only.

Bait ready to be loaded onto a fishing boat in Newlyn harbour.

Fishermen catching Salmon, Lake Kuril, Kamchatka, Far East Russia, August 2006

Floating work platform of a gold seeker in Amazonia, Bolivia, South America

Commercial Fishing.

Alaskan native man gillnet fishing for Bristol Bay Sockeye salmon on the Newhalen River near Iliamna, Southwest Alaska, Summer

Setting the Gill Net off Paradigm Shift, Cordova, Alaska, USA.

Native Alaskans subsistance fishing and processing near Ekwok, Alaska

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A fisherman lays out mats in preparation for oyster harvesting, Wittman, Maryland.

Workers pull a net with salmon at a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River; Ust Bolsheretsk, Kamchatka, Russia

Qatar, General, Fisherman mending nets.

19 September 2006 First nation logger at work Clayoquot Sound Tofino British Columbia Canada

A British Petroleum rig in the Orinoco delta, Venezuela, South America

Men dismantling a boat on Shipwreck beach, Bay of Santiago, Luanda, Angola, Africa

Fisherman pouring water over freshly caught fish in the fishing port of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Indefatigable Island, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, South America

Workers on salmon farm in rural lake

Ladened with fish, a purse seine net is inspected by a boat's crew in Clayoquot Sound, BC, Canada; British Columbia, Canada

Kelong, offshore platform, built predominantly with woodby fishermen for fishing purposes

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Boats - 26-HK-349-87. Sierra Marie. Hurricane Katrina

The Tyee Test Fishery gillnetter operating on the lower Skeena River, near prince Rupert, BC

worker or carpenter, splash painted or repair, wooden chair

Shrimp cutter near Pellworm on the North Sea coast

Overhead view of local people trying to pump sludge out of a pump at the Water Works Treatment Plant.(Exact date unknown). Base: Des Moines State: Iowa (IA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Salmon fisherman setting their fishing gear, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA

Mussel Harvesting, Bar Harbor, Maine

Fischer Fischer Copyright: xZoonar.com/JensxNieswandtx 927514

Fisherman repairs net in the harbor at Vernazza Cinque Terra Italy

Trawler boat tackle plates downrigger destroy the seabed

Taiwan, Kinmen County, Jincheng,Farmer carrying oyster catch

Crab cutters in the harbour, Büsum, Ditmarsh, Schleswig - Holstein, North Germany, Germany

Fisherman unloads halibut onto ice at the dock; Petersburg, Alaska, United States of America

Workers attempting to clean oil residue off of local beaches after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska

Large-scale nets for breeding seabass set up in the open sea at a fish farm off of Ugljan Island, Croatia, Europe

S.A.F.E Collection Center, Sun Valley, Bureau of Sanitation for the City of Los Angeles, California, USA. Batteries, solvents and cleaning materials get put in large drums and then sealed before shipping.

Hispanic man working in fish hatchery

Salvage Engineering Response Team - Various Operations - 26-HK-359-72. Port Fouchon Compiled - Bayou Lafourche Sunken Vessels. Hurricane Katrina

Coiled fishing nets Coiled fishing nets in the port of Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland Copyright: xZoonar.com/ChristianxMueringerx 5921640

Fishermen on frozen Lake Furen in winter Hokkaido Japan

Pumping water for agriculture on the Chambal river India

Salvage Engineering Response Team - Empire and Venice - 26-HK-353-41. Venice. Hurricane Katrina

Salmon fisherman picking salmon from fishing gear, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA

Marine produces

Crab cutter, North Sea, Germany, Europe

A man pushes 70lb bags of freshly harvested oysters to the loading dock.

Fish factory and harbor, processing of Atlantic cod for stockfish. Fishing village Sund on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway during winter. Scandinavia, Norway

Salmon fisherman, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA

Lumbermen guide a raft of illegally cut mahogany on the Tuichi River, Madidi National Park, Bolivia; Bolivia

SPAIN - La Janda (district) - ANDALUSIA - Cadiz. Barbate, repairing nets at the fisher port

Fish Industry - shoveling fish catch into containers. Hailuoto Island - Finland.

Vancouver Island shrimp side trawl with gulls, British Columbia, Canada

An oyster fisherman sorts and arranges his harvest, Wittman, Maryland.

Salmon fishing, Draft Nets, Killary Harbour, Co Galway, Ireland

Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, 'Fisherman On Stationary Floating Platform Check On Oyster Cultivations, Arraial Do Cabo Near To Praia Dos Anjos,'

Italy, Sicily, Trapani. Salt ponds

Shrimper fishing for shrimps with shrimping net along the beach at Le Treport, Normandy, France, Europe

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