Commercial fishing - meaning and illustration

(1) In this Part, commercial fishing activities means fishing activities for commercial purposes.

✏️ Source -- New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994, Part 9, Section 241 ( New South Wales Fisheries Management Act 1994 )

commercial fishing activity means—

• (a)taking, possessing or using fisheries resources for trade or commerce; or
• (b)possessing or using commercial fishing apparatus.

✏️ Source -- Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, Part 5, Section 76W ( Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 )

commercial fishing activity means—

• (a)taking, possessing or using fisheries resources for trade or commerce; or
• (b)possessing or using commercial fishing apparatus.

✏️ Source -- Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, Part 5, Section 76ZH ( Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 )

"commercial fishing" means a fishing operation resulting or intending or appearing to result in the sale or trade of a fish which may be taken, caught or harvested during the fishing operations, and does not include recreational fishing;

✏️ Source -- Ghana Fisheries Act, 2002, Part VI, Section 140 ( Ghana Fisheries Act, 2002 )

“commercial fishing” means any fishing or fishing related activity resulting or intending or appearing to result in the sale or trade of any fish taken, caught or harvested during a fishing operation;

✏️ Source -- SEYCHELLES FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE ACT, 2025, Part 1, Section 2, Sub-section 1 ( SEYCHELLES FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE ACT, 2025 )

‘‘commercial fishing’’ means fishing for any of the species which have been determined by the Minister in terms of section 14 to be subject to the allowable commercial catch or total applied effort, or parts of both;

✏️ Source -- South Africa Marine Living Resources Act, 1998, Section 1, Paragraph iv ( South Africa Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 )

“commercial fish activities” means—
(a) any fish activity carried out in the course of a business or employment;
(b) selling fish or fish products (whether wholesale or retail); 

✏️ Source -- UK Fisheries Act 2020, Section 52 ( UK Fisheries Act 2020 )