Global marine commercial, small-scale, illegal and unreported fisheries catch 1950–2014

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Global fisheries catch rates from a range of public sources harmonised and mapped based on the description of the reported taxa and the fishing fleets involved.

temporal
resolution annual
period historical
coverage 1950–2015
climatology no

descriptors
gridded yes
type derived data
formats csv

access
published yes
link to data and code http://dx.doi.org/10.4226/77/58293083b0515
availability public

spatial
resolution 0.5° x 0.5°
depth depth integrated
coverage global
figureSource: Figure 3 from Watson et al., 2017

Major Variables

Key References

  • Watson, R. A. (2017). A database of global marine commercial, small-scale, illegal and unreported fisheries catch 1950–2014. Scientific Data, 4, 170039. http://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.39.

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