The Fishing Industry

Bird fancier's lung: hazard of the fishing industry.

A throwing arrow is a 15 inch sharpened plastic rod with a groove cut in the shaft where a knotted shoe lace can be used as a sling to hurl the arrow. A 16 year old boy was speared in the right supraclavicular fossa by a throwing arrow in Old Sherwood Forest. He removed the arrow himself, which resulted in profuse bleeding. On arrival in the casualty department the bleeding had stopped, and the...

Science-Fishing Industry Partnership for Assessing Marine Biodiversity

Human and fishing vessel losses in sea accidents in the UK fishing industry from 1948 to 2008.

OBJECTIVE To investigate long-term trends in mortality rates for accidents to fishing vessels in the UK fishing industry from 1948 to 2008; to investigate the circumstances and causes of these fishing vessel accidents and trends in fishing vessel losses. MATERIAL AND METHODS Examination of paper death inquiry files, death registers, marine accident investigative files, annual casualty and dea...

Classification and coding of commercial fishing injuries by work processes: an experience in the Danish fresh market fishing industry.

BACKGROUND Work-related injuries in commercial fishing are of concern internationally. To better identify the causes of injury, this study coded occupational injuries by working processes in commercial fishing for fresh market fish. METHODS A classification system of the work processes was developed by participation in fishing vessel trips where observations and video recordings of the work o...

Occupational asthma in the commercial fishing industry: a case series and review of the literature.

We present a case series of snow crab-induced occupational asthma (OA) from a fishing and processing vessel, followed by a review of OA in the commercial fishing industry. OA is typically caused from an IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction after respiratory exposure to aerosolized fish and shellfish proteins. It more commonly occurs due to crustaceans, but molluscs and fin fish are implicated...