Phil lives in a country that is heavily dependent on fishing for its livelihood. in which type of economy does phil live? secondary, manufacturing, tertiary, primary

Phil lives in primary economy.

Primary economy is a type of economy that is involved in the extraction and gathering of natural resources such as fishing, mining, forestry and farming. These economy functions by supplying raw materials for other industries, which further perform several processes on the materials and transform them into finished products to be purchased by customers.

the principles and empirical processes of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to test the hypothesis, and development of a conclusion that confirms, rejects, or modifies the hypothesis.