Does fishing count as a sport

Fishing counts as a form of sport. Fishing sports introduction:

1, the history of fishing: fishing activities in inland freshwater waters has a long history, which originated in the production activities of the ancient pioneers, with the stabilization of the living environment and the improvement of the standard of living, and gradually separated from the production activities, and has become a kind of fun, full of wisdom, full of vitality, style and elegance, good for the body and mind of the cultural and sports activities. Throughout the ages, people have regarded fishing as a recreational activity beneficial to physical and mental health. Nowadays, fishing has become popular all over the world. In mainland China and Taiwan, this is good for physical and mental health of sports activities are also more and more favored by the people, the development situation is very promising;

2, fishing in 1983 was listed as China's official sports, has experienced the State Sports Commission management, the Ministry of Agriculture on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, the State General Administration of Sports, Social Sports Guidance Center directly under the management of the three different stages of history;

3, The basic fishing method: the basic fishing method can be divided according to different criteria for traditional fishing, pendant fishing, competitive fishing, table fishing, road fishing method. According to different locations can be divided into freshwater pool fishing, natural water fishing, sea fishing and so on.