Key facts
Code summary
Code 031
Official title Fishing
Version PSIC 2019
Source layer PSA / BSP
Parent 03 - Fishing and Aquaculture
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PSIC 2019 Navigation-first hub Group 031 - Fishing
PSIC Group 031 covers Fishing. Direct children below it include Marine fishing and Freshwater fishing. It clusters closely related activities and helps compare nearby classes before choosing the most defensible business...
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Practical summary
Group 031 sits in the PSIC 2019 hierarchy under A Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing > 03 Fishing and Aquaculture. This group usually narrows the choice to a small family of classes such as Marine fishing and Freshwater fishing. It is useful when two or three neighboring activities look similar but should not be collapsed into one code.
Administrative context
Where this code is used
This group is used when reviewers compare a short list of classes such as Marine fishing and Freshwater fishing and need to decide which family is the closest fit. It is common in internal classification review and administrative lookup work.
Selection note
How to choose it
Use this group when the activity sits between similar classes such as Marine fishing and Freshwater fishing. The safest choice is the one whose wording matches the actual production, service or operating model most closely.
Official note
Source-backed description
This group includes capture fishery, i.e. the hunting, collecting and gathering activities directed at removing or collecting live wild aquatic organisms (predominantly fish, mollusks and crustaceans) including plants from the oceanic, coastal or inland waters for human consumption and other purposes by hand or more usually by various types of fishing gear such as nets, lines and stationary traps. Such activities can be conducted on the intertidal shoreline (e.g. collection of mollusks such as mussels and oysters) or shore based netting, or from home-made dugouts or more commonly using commercially made boats in inshore, coastal waters or offshore waters. Unlike in aquaculture (group 032), the aquatic resource being captured is usually common property resource irrespective of whether the harvest from this resource is undertaken with or without exploitation rights. Such activities also include fishing restocked water bodies.
FAQ
What does PSIC Group 031 cover?
PSIC Group 031 clusters a smaller family of classes under Fishing and is useful when the business sits between closely related options.
How do I compare Group 031 with sibling groups?
Look at the parent class and the nearby sibling groups. On this page, the most relevant nearby options are 032 Aquaculture.
Why is Group 031 useful for classification?
It sits at the point where a broad sector is already narrowed enough to compare a small family of similar classes before the final code choice.