2022 NAICS industry in sector 11 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting

11411 Fishing

NAICS 11411 is the US industry code for fishing. It covers establishments primarily engaged in the commercial catching or taking of finfish, shellfish, or miscellaneous marine products from a natural habitat, such as the catching of bluefish, eels, salmon, tuna, clams, crabs, lobsters, mussels, oysters, shrimp, frogs, sea urchins, and turtles.

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the commercial catching or taking of finfish, shellfish, or miscellaneous marine products from a natural habitat, such as the catching of bluefish, eels, salmon, tuna, clams, crabs, lobsters, mussels, oysters, shrimp, frogs, sea urchins, and turtles.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

Farm raising finfish, shellfish or other marine animals and plants are classified in Industry 11251, Aquaculture.
Gathering and processing seafood into canned seafood products are classified in Industry 31171, Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Codes in 11411

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