Commercial Fishing

Commercial fishing registers fatality rates of 40–80 per 100,000 workers depending on the fishery — Alaska's crab fleet has historically exceeded 300 per 100,000 in the worst seasons. Workers face hypothermic seas, entanglement in heavy gear, vessel capsizes in open-ocean swells, and extreme sleep deprivation during tight harvest windows. Norway, Russia, and the United States run the largest commercial fleets, with Southeast Asian artisanal fishing adding enormous unrecorded casualties.