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Global

• Worldwide, at least 20% of the 10 000 freshwater fish species are now endangered, threatened with extinction, or are already extinct.
  
  
• Inland fisheries and aquaculture capture is very important for the sector. It accounted for 23.3 million tonnes in 1996, which increased to 31.2 million tonnes in 2001, an increase of 34% over the period amounting to almost 5 times the growth rate for all types of fisheries. (Total fish production from all sources amounted to 120.2 million tonnes in 1996 and increased to 128.8 million tonnes in 2001, an increase of 7%.) 

Canada

• The 2002 commercial freshwater fishery harvested 40 933 tonnes of fish valued at $78.1 million. The aquaculture industry was valued at $639 million.
  
  
• In 2001, trout farming in Canada's fresh water amounted to over 6500 tonnes of fish valued at about $32 million. Ontario accounted for over 4100 tonnes of these fish.
  
  
• In 1997, the freshwater fishing industry contributed $71 million to the GDP and employed 3500 people.

Canada's recreational fish tale [291 Kb]

• In 2000, 3.6 million adult anglers, Canadians and visitors, participated in a variety of recreational fishing activities in Canada spending $6.7 billion. Anglers fished a total of 47.9 million days and caught 233 million fish of all species, with trout being the most popular, but released almost two thirds of their catches, keeping only 84.6 million fish.

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