The table illustrates the statistics of large-scale and small-scale marine fishing businesses.
Overall, it is evident that all categories in big-scale fishing operations are higher than that of small-scale counterparts, apart from the number of employees.
Looking at the need of employees, small-scale fishing companies need an impressive workforce of 120.000.000 workers, which is significantly higher than 500.000 workers of large-scale operations. In terms of catch output per year, big-scale businesses catch 29 million tonnes of fish for food and 22 million tonnes of fish for industrial processes, outperforming 24 million tonnes of fish for food of small-scale businesses, without enough quality for industrial processes.
Regarding annual cost for each employee, individuals working in big-scale industrial ships receive 25.000 – 350.000 pounds, in stark contrast to the ones working in small fishing boats, recorded around 200-3000 pounds. Finally, small-scale fishing vessels comesum 8.500 gallon of fuel every year, exhibiting a much lower 65.000 gallon consumption of big industrial ship.