Global Fisheries Landings V2.0 [ARCHIVED VERSION]
NOTE THIS IS AN ARCHIVED VERSION OF THE GLOBAL FISHERIES LANDING DATA. The current version of the data is available from https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5c4590d3-a45a-4d37-bf8b-ecd145cb356d and should be used for all future analyses from 16/01/2019. For any questions about version changes to this dataset, please contact the Point of Contact nominated in this record.
Global fisheries landings supplied by a number of agencies (FAO/UN, CCAMLR, NAFO, ICES etc) are mapped to 30-min spatial cells based on the range/gradient of the reported taxon, the spatial access of the reporting country's fleets, and the original reporting area. This data is associated with types of fishing gears. Estimates of illegal, unreported and unallocated landings are included as are estimates of the weight of fisheries products discarded at sea. Mapping the source of fisheries capture allows investigation of the impacts of fishing and the vulnerability of fishing (with its associate food security implications) to climate change impacts.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-11-14
- Edition
- V2.0 [archived version]
- Edition date
- 2016-11-14T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
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doi:10.4226/77/5a65572655f73
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-11-14T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
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ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4226/77/5a65572655f73
Principal investigator
- Credit
- Fisheries Centre, Sea Around Us project, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Credit
- The Australian Research Council (DP140101377)
- Credit
- Pew Charitable Trust's support of the UBC Sea Around Us project
- Credit
- CECAF (Eastern Central Atlantic) capture production 1970-2014 (Release date: May 2016)
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- Food and Agriculture Organisation (United Nations) Capture Production 1950-2014 (Release date: March 2016)
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- GFCM (Mediterranean and Black Sea) capture production 1970-2014 (Release date: April 2016)
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- RECOFI capture production 1986-2014 (Release date: June 2016)
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- Southeast Atlantic Capture Production 1975-2014 (Release date: June 2016)
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- CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) Statistical Bulletin, Vol. 28
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- ICES (International Council) for Exploration of the Sea) Catch statistics datasets (historical 1950-2010 and 2006-2014)
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- NAFO (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization) Fishery Catch statistics 1960-2014
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
- Temporal resolution
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P1Y0M0DT0H0M0S
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1950-01-01 2014-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Landings
- Global
- Fishing
- Discards
- Illegal Fishing
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- Pelagic
- Shark
- Tuna
- Crustacean
- Mollusc
- Cephalopod
- Fish
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Year (Calendar)
- Spatial Cell Code
- Latitude of centre of spatial cell
- Longitude of centre of spatial cell
- Area (estimated) of ocean surface in the spatial cell
- Country Code
- Country
- Taxon Code
- Scientific Taxonomic Name
- Common (English) Name
- Fishing Gear Code
- Gear name in most specific form
- Reported large-scale fishing catch rate
- Small scale fisheries catch rate
- Rate of Illegal Catch
- Rate of associated discards at sea
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Watson, R.A. (2016). Global Fisheries Landings V2.0. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS). doi:10.4226/77/58293083b0515
- Other constraints
- See credits in this record for all original data collections that have contributed to this dataset.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Agnew, D.J., Pearce, J., Pramod, G., Peatman, T., Watson, R., Beddington, J.R., Pitcher, T.J. (2009) Estimating the worldwide extent of illegal fishing. PLoS One 4, e4570. Watson, R., Alder, J., Kitchingman, A., Pauly, D. (2005) Catching some needed attention. Marine Policy 29, 281-284. Watson, R., Kitchingman, A., Gelchu, A., Pauly, D. (2004) Mapping global fisheries: sharpening our focus. Fish and Fisheries 5, 168-177.
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Description
- Year of fishing (reported)
- Name
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Year (Calendar)
- Name
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Year
- Name
- none
- Description
- unique spatial 'half-degree' spatial cell in a gird of 259,200 (360 rows x 720 columns) each 0.5 degrees of latitude by 0.5 degrees of longitude. Cell 1 is centered at 90 North and 179.75 West. Numbering is first by row then by column so cell 2 is at 90 N and 179.25 W. Cells numbered from North to South, and within each latitude, from West to East. Centre of each spatial cell is identified by the Lon (Longitude) and Lat (Latitude) fields and the OceanArea field estimates the surface area of ocean within the spatial cell.
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Spatial Cell Code
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Seq
- Name
- none
- Description
- centre is .25 degrees from any cell country as these are half degree (or 30 min) spatial cells
- Name
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Latitude of centre of spatial cell
- Name
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Lat
- Name
- angular degrees in geographical global coordinate system
- Description
- centre is .25 degrees from any cell country as these are half degree (or 30 min) spatial cells
- Name
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Longitude of centre of spatial cell
- Name
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Lon
- Name
- angular degrees in geographical global coordinate system
- Description
- Used to translate catch rates into absolute weights (tonnes)
- Name
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Area (estimated) of ocean surface in the spatial cell
- Name
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OceanArea
- Name
- square kilometers
- Description
- Code for each country/fishing entity - relates to FAO name, relates to CountryName field
- Name
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Country Code
- Name
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CNumber
- Name
- none
- Description
- UN English name for the reporting/fishing country coded by CNumber field
- Name
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Country
- Name
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CountryName
- Name
- none
- Description
- Code for the reported taxon based on Froese, R., Pauly, D.E., (2006) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.and other sources - relates to TaxonName and CommonName fields
- Name
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Taxon Code
- Name
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Taxonkey
- Name
- none
- Description
- Developed from FishBase and other on-line sources - coded by Taxonkey field
- Name
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Scientific Taxonomic Name
Identifier
- Name
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TaxonName
- Name
- none
- Description
- Adopted from FishBase and other on-line sources - coded by Taxonkey field
- Name
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Common (English) Name
- Name
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CommonName
- Name
- none
- Description
- Code for the fishing gear used (after von Brandt) see Watson, R., Revenga, C., Kura, Y. (2006) Fishing gear associated with global marine catches. II. Trends in trawling and dredging. Fisheries Research 79, 103-111.Watson, R., Revenga, C., Kura, Y. (2006.) Fishing gear associated with global marine catches: I Database development. Fisheries Research 79, 97-102.Relates to GearName and GearMajorName fields. Adopted from A. von Brandt 1986 Fish Catching Methods of the World. Third Edition, Fishing News Books, Surrey
- Name
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Fishing Gear Code
- Name
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Gear
- Name
- none
- Description
- Adopted from Von Brandt - coded by Gear field
- Name
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Gear name in most specific form
- Name
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GearName
- Name
- none
- Description
- tonnes per sq km of ocean in the cell reported for the year by the country of the taxon using the fishing gear type and attributed to large-scale fishing, original reported catch rate reduced by any portion deemed to be small-scale (SSF_CR)
- Name
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Reported large-scale fishing catch rate
- Name
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LSF_CR
- Name
- tonnes per sq km of ocean in year
- Description
- tonnes per sq km of ocean of small-scale marine fisheries catches based on reported landings and on estimates in Chuenpagdee R, Liguori L, Palomares MLD, Pauly D (2006 ), depending on the reporting accuracy assumed for the country some SSF catch rates might have been reported originally combined with large-scale catch rates and the LLS_CR was adjusted accordingly
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Small scale fisheries catch rate
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SSF_CR
- Name
- tonnes per sq km of ocean
- Description
- tonnes per sq km of ocean in the cell of illegal catch estimated based on Agnew, D.J., et al. (2009) Estimating the worldwide extent of illegal fishing. PLoS One 4, e4570.
- Name
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Rate of Illegal Catch
- Name
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IUU_CR
- Name
- tonnes per sq km of ocean in year
- Description
- tonnes per sq km of ocean in the cell of discarded marine life estimated based on Kelleher, K., (2005) Discards in the world’s marine fisheries. An update., FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. FAO, Rome, p. 131. NOTE: the dicards are often not the same taxon as that reported/targeted through fishing so this is only a general estimate with no specific taxonomic identity
- Name
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Rate of associated discards at sea
- Name
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Discards_CR
- Name
- tonnes per sq km of ocean in year
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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CSV files (.csv)
- Amendment number
- V2.0
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CSV files (.csv)
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1950-1954 [direct download 2.2GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1955-1959 [direct download 2.8GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1960-1964 [direct download 3.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1965-1969 [direct download 5.0GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1970-1974 [direct download 7.7GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1975-1979 [direct download 9.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1980-1984 [direct download 9.8GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1985-1989 [direct download 9.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1990-1994 [direct download 10.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1995-1999 [direct download 12.3GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 2000-2004 [direct download 13.2GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
- OnLine resource
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Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 2005-2009 [direct download 14.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Annual data on fisheries landings (referred to here as 'reported' landings) was sourced from public sources (FAO/UN (and their regional agencies), CCAMLR, ICES and NAFO), which were coded and mapped to 30-spatial cells. Some adjustment was made when the identity or locations provided were not possible. There was an attempt to provide the fullest taxonomic breakdown of what were sometimes highly aggregated reporting groups using records of countries providing better breakdowns in the same fished waters. Then, using information on the range and distribution of commercial species, the known and allowable fishing access patterns of country fleets, and the collection of 30-min spatial cells in the original data provided, each record was mapped to the most likely collection of 30-min spatial cells and prorated by the fished taxon's abundance or other spatial information such as the spatial fishing records of fleets (such as for tuna). Based on known fishing gear associations with the capture of species by country and year, the data were prorated to the type of fishing gear likely used. Precision varies as some data such as that provided by ICES for waters of the northeast Atlantic is reported by relatively small statistical reporting areas and is intensely reviewed as source. Some data from FAO (UN) is provided in very large reporting areas covering large areas of the Pacific therefore the spatial precision is dependent on the accuracy of accepted ranges of the fishing taxa and what is known about the spatial access of the reporting country's fleets to the inshore areas which lie within the 'exclusive economic zone' claims of coastal nations. From the mapped global 'reported' landings it was possible to estimate the associated catch rates of 'IUU" - or the missing illegal, unreported and unregulated landings using published rates [1]. Similarly the catch rate of discarded fauna (not usually the same animals as commercially sought) were also estimated from published rates [2]. Finally there is an estimate of landings by 'small scale fisheries' (SSF) using data using reported rates [3]. Estimates of what SSF was already included in the reported harmonised landings were based on each countries corruption index. SSF already reported in the 'reported landings' were adjusted accordingly. 1. Agnew DJ, Pearce J, Pramod G, Peatman T, Watson R, Beddington JR, et al. Estimating the worldwide extent of illegal fishing. PLoS One. 2009;4(2):e4570. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004570.1. 2. Kelleher K. Discards in the world’s marine fisheries. An update. Rome: FAO, 2005 3. Chuenpagdee R, Liguori L, Palomares MLD, Pauly D. Bottom up, global estimates of small-scale marine fisheries catches. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia, 2006
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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c1fefb3d-7e37-4171-b9ce-4ce4721bbc78
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c1fefb3d-7e37-4171-b9ce-4ce4721bbc78
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-29T13:31:32
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-29T13:31:32
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018