➡ 1) to cut off the fins (from a fish). The practice of removing fins and discarding the carcass, usually pertaining to sharks. 2) of a marine animal) to show fins above the water — Saw was frightened as the sharks finned around the boat

➡ a thin, flat appendage on the body of a fish or other aquatic animal that helps manoeuvre the body through the water.

➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.

➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.

➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.

➡ person who engages in fishing activities, or is employed or engaged in any capacity or carrying out an occupation on board any fishing vessel, including persons working on board who are paid on the basis of a share of the catch but excluding pilots, naval personnel, other persons in the permanent service of a government, shore-based persons carrying out work aboard a fishing vessel and fisheries observers.

➡ Services in charge of processing documents in the fisheries sector in a Country. Equally includes all services, enterprises, companies, etc. carrying out fisheries related activities.

➡ Sector or activity of harvesting fish from the wild.

➡ an administrative or legal mechanism employed by local governments to regulate fishing.

➡ an official document that shows that permission has been given to carry out fishery activities, to own or to operate a fishery equipment.