FRESHWATER
The purpose of the statistical survey
is to collect data on freshwater
fishing in the
Until 2007
data were collected and calculated by the Statistical Office of the Republic of
Slovenia (SORS). From 2008 on the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Food
(MAFF) is responsible for data on aquaculture production and on the facilities
for this production, the Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia (FRIS) is
responsible for data on angling and SORS is responsible for data on employment
in aquaculture.
are the Fisheries Research
Institute of Slovenia, angling clubs that are part of the Fishing Association
of Slovenia and other independent fishing and sports organizations engaged in
fishery and fish farms registered at the MAFF. As regards the data on the
persons in employment in aquaculture, observation units are all employed and
self-employed persons who are at least 15 years old and not retired, who have
compulsory pension and health insurance, have employment contracts and work in
Slovenia in enterprises or are owners of enterprises engaged in the aquaculture
production or they are engaged in fish farming as supplementary activity.
Observation units are fish farms from the MAFF fish farm register and
sport organisations registered by
FRIS. From 2008 on the data on employed
and self-employed persons in aquaculture (NACE 03.220) are obtained from the
Statistical Register of Employment (SRDAP). In
SRDAP those persons
in paid employment and self-employed persons are taken into consideration who
have social insurance, irrespective of whether they work full time or part
time. Persons working under copyright contracts, contracts for work/service and
unpaid family members are not covered (methodology of
SRDAP). The latter were considered as persons in employment in aquaculture
until 2007.
Freshwater fishing comprises breeding, protection and catch of fish and other water
animals.
Fish farming is an economic activity of breeding fish fry and fish for selling,
selling fish for consumption or breeding for own use.
Breeding fish for the repopulation of particular
species, which is performed by angling clubs
and the Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia, is ranked among sport
fishing.
If the fish
farms of angling clubs had sold the fish on the market, they ware considered as
a business entity in fish farming.
Commercial recreational fishing is trading of fish from a water body that is
separated from the natural surrounding area. In addition to various sporting, tourist
and catering services, fish bred only in fish farms are traded as well.
Therefore, these fish are considered as fish bred in fish farms.
Sport fishing is the catch of fish in a sporting way, as regulated by the Fishing
Association of Slovenia and in the regulation on fishing in freshwaters in
Coldwater fish live in waters rich with oxygen with the temperature under 20°C.
Warmwater fish live in waters that in summer
reach the temperature of up to 30°C.
Spawn are fish eggs.
Fish fry is fish progeny.
Fingerlings are young fish up to sexual maturity.
Commercial fish are fish suitable for selling and human consumption.
Stocks are all fish that were on 31
December on the fish farm or in a particular fish farm facility (basin, pond)
and their number or mass is estimated by inventory.
Area of fishing district is the area of sport-fishing, protective waters and
waters with no active fish management.
Protective waters are waters for sustainable breeding and for preservation of
autochthonous and endangered fish species.
Surface of
basins and ponds is only area of the facilities that are under water.
Ponds means
relatively shallow and usually small bodies of still water or water with a low
refreshment rate, most frequently artificially formed, but can also apply to natural
pools, tarns, meres or small lakes.
A pond for commercial recreational fishing is a water body used for trading fish together with
the sport fishing activity in which the breeding of fish is keeping up to the
sale through the commercial recreational fishing activity.
Tanks and raceways
means artificial units constructed above or below ground level capable of high
rates of water interchange or with a high water turnover rate and highly
controlled environment but without water recirculation.
Until 2007 the persons in employment in the
activity of freshwater fishing ware all
persons older than 15 years that have in the previous year from January to
December done any kind of work for payment (in money or other payment) or for
profit in the angling club and/or fish farm and/or commercial recreational
fishing pond. Included were all persons in paid employment, self-employed
persons, persons working under contract, by student's service, for direct
payment and assistants (unpaid family workers).
Persons in employment in aquaculture in 2008 are all employed and self-employed persons who have
compulsory pension and health insurance, who have employment contract and work
in
Members of angling clubs and other sporting
organizations who perform certain activities as volunteers are not considered as persons in employment in fishery
with the exception of market fish breeding activities performed by sporting organizations.
Categories of frequency of work are defined according to the weekly number of
working/insurance hours.
The category
»full-time employment« covers
employed and self-employed persons being under employment contract 36 or more
working/insurance hours per week.
The category
»part-time employment« covers
persons being under employment contract fewer than 36 working/insurance hours
per week.
Yearly:
- Rapid
Reports.
- Statistical
Yearbook
- SI-STAT
Enisa Lojović Hadžihasanović
17. 9.2009