➡ 1) to cut off the fins (from a fish). The practice of removing fins and discarding the carcass, usually pertaining to sharks. 2) of a marine animal) to show fins above the water — Saw was frightened as the sharks finned around the boat

➡ a thin, flat appendage on the body of a fish or other aquatic animal that helps manoeuvre the body through the water.

➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.

➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.

➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.

➡ Services in charge of processing documents in the fisheries sector in a Country. Equally includes all services, enterprises, companies, etc. carrying out fisheries related activities.

➡ Sector or activity of harvesting fish from the wild.

➡ an administrative or legal mechanism employed by local governments to regulate fishing.

➡ an official document that shows that permission has been given to carry out fishery activities, to own or to operate a fishery equipment.