The table illustrates the difference between the two types of sea fishing: large-scale with industrial ships and small-scale with fishing boats.
While industrial ships only need 500.000 workers, the number of fishing boats is more than half of the figure for large-scale fishing. Despite the large number of employees, only 24 million tonnes of food are caught per year by fishing boats, which is 5 million tonnes less than by large-scale ships. Similarly, industrial ships contribute 22 million tonnes annually for industrial process, while no data on small-scale fishing is recorded.
Otherwise, large-scale fishing has to incur high costs for employees’ annual salary, ranging from 25.000 to 35000 pounds. Meanwhile, workers in fishing boats are only paid unremarkably; their maximum wage is just nearly one-third of the minimum for people working in industrial ships. There is a huge amount of fuel consumed by large-scale fishing, at 65000 gallons for each vessel, which is almost 8 times larger than the figure for small-scale.
In summary, with a smaller labor force, large-scale fishing shows a larger data in production than small-scale method. Additionally, industrial ships cost more to operate because of employees’ salaries and fuel consumption.