Economics
Friday, 03 July 2009 17:39 | Author: Administrator | 
Anglers fish for salmon with rod and reel, usually using flies as bait. Commercial fishing for salmon is done on a much larger scale, employing traps and pound nets to catch the fish on the way to their spawning grounds. The salmon fishing industry is one of the major industries of the American Pacific coast, providing 60,000 jobs and more than $1 billion in income per year for the region.
The annual harvest of wild and farm-raised salmon in the United States averages about 478,000 metric tons, of which about 60 percent is canned.
