Date (Creation)

2016-11-14

Edition

V2.0 [archived version]

Edition date

2016-11-14T00:00:00

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)

Credit

Food and Agriculture Organisation (United Nations) Capture Production 1950-2014 (Release date: March 2016)

Credit

GFCM (Mediterranean and Black Sea) capture production 1970-2014 (Release date: April 2016)

Credit

RECOFI capture production 1986-2014 (Release date: June 2016)

Credit

Southeast Atlantic Capture Production 1975-2014 (Release date: June 2016)

Credit

CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) Statistical Bulletin, Vol. 28

Credit

ICES (International Council) for Exploration of the Sea) Catch statistics datasets (historical 1950-2010 and 2006-2014)

Credit

NAFO (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization) Fishery Catch statistics 1960-2014

Status

Completed

Temporal resolution

P1Y0M0DT0H0M0S

Topic category

• Biota

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Keywords (Theme)

• Landings
• Global
• Fishing
• Discards
• Illegal Fishing
• 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

Keywords (Taxon)

• Pelagic
• Shark
• Tuna
• Crustacean
• Mollusc
• Cephalopod
• Fish

NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5

• EARTH SCIENCE | AGRICULTURE | AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES | FISHERIES
• EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research

• Fisheries Management
• Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
• Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment

AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary

• Biotic taxonomic identification

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 type

Physical measurement

Description

Year of fishing (reported)

Name

Year (Calendar)

Name

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.

Name

Spatial Cell Code

Name

Seq

Name

none

Description

centre is .25 degrees from any cell country as these are half degree (or 30 min) spatial cells

Name

Latitude of centre of spatial cell

Name

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

Longitude of centre of spatial cell

Name

Lon

Name

angular degrees in geographical global coordinate system

Description

Used to translate catch rates into absolute weights (tonnes)

Name

Area (estimated) of ocean surface in the spatial cell

Name

OceanArea

Name

square kilometers

Description

Code for each country/fishing entity - relates to FAO name, relates to CountryName field

Name

Country Code

Name

CNumber

Name

none

Description

UN English name for the reporting/fishing country coded by CNumber field

Name

Country

Name

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

Taxon Code

Name

Taxonkey

Name

none

Description

Developed from FishBase and other on-line sources - coded by Taxonkey field

Name

Scientific Taxonomic Name

Name

TaxonName

Name

none

Description

Adopted from FishBase and other on-line sources - coded by Taxonkey field

Name

Common (English) Name

Name

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

Fishing Gear Code

Name

Gear

Name

none

Description

Adopted from Von Brandt - coded by Gear field

Name

Gear name in most specific form

Name

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

Reported large-scale fishing catch rate

Name

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

Name

Small scale fisheries catch rate

Name

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

Rate of Illegal Catch

Name

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

Rate of associated discards at sea

Name

Discards_CR

Name

tonnes per sq km of ocean in year

Distribution format

• CSV files (.csv)

  Amendment number

  V2.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1950-1954 [direct download 2.2GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1955-1959 [direct download 2.8GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1960-1964 [direct download 3.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1965-1969 [direct download 5.0GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1970-1974 [direct download 7.7GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1975-1979 [direct download 9.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1980-1984 [direct download 9.8GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1985-1989 [direct download 9.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1990-1994 [direct download 10.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 1995-1999 [direct download 12.3GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 2000-2004 [direct download 13.2GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 2005-2009 [direct download 14.5GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

Global Fisheries Catch Data V2.0: 2010-2014 [direct download 14.2GB] - NOTE THIS DATA HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY V4.0

OnLine resource

CURRENT VERSION (V4.0) of Global Fisheries Catch Data [to be used for all analyses from 16/01/2019]

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

Resource scope

Dataset

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018