About the Fishing in Illinois Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Fishing in Illinois Market Research Report
Definition of the Fishing in Illinois?
Operators in the Fishing industry primarily catch finfish, shellfish and miscellaneous marine products for commercial sale with little to no alteration or further processing. Aquaculture is excluded, and companies that extract the bulk of their revenue through fish processing are also excluded.
What’s included in the Fishing in Illinois?
The Fishing in Illinois includes catching finfish, catching shellfish and catching other marine species. Related terms covered in the Fishing in Illinois industry report includes the depletion of natural fish stocks due to large-scale fishing activity, true fish, as opposed to mollusks and crustaceans and aquatic arthropods that include lobsters, prawn, barnacles, crabs and crayfish.
Industry Performance of the Fishing industry in Illinois
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Fishing in Illinois
#37 in Highest Revenue 0.1% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Fishing in the US
Revenue (2024)
Annual Growth (2019-24)
Annual Growth (2024-29)
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Key Drivers of the Fishing industry in Illinois
See how key industry drivers, such as population, net migration, new business formation, price of seafood, demand from fish and seafood wholesaling and trade-weighted index are impacting Fishing in Illinois
Illinois Economic Indicators
Population
Net Migration
New Business Formation
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US Key External Drivers
Price of seafood
Demand from fish and seafood wholesaling
Trade-weighted index
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County Data of the Fishing industry in Illinois
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Key Statistics of the Fishing industry in Illinois
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