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EMODnet Human Activities, FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes

FAO Major Fishing Areas for Statistical Purposes are arbitrary areas, the boundaries of which were determined in consultation with international fishery agencies on various considerations, including (i) the boundary of natural regions and the natural divisions of oceans and seas; (ii) the boundaries of adjacent statistical fisheries bodies already established in inter-governmental conventions and treaties; (iii) existing national practices; (iv) national boundaries; (v) the longitude and latitude grid system; (vi) the distribution of the aquatic fauna; and (vii) the distribution of the resources and the environmental conditions within an area. The rationale of the FAO Major Fishing Areas has been that the areas should, as far as possible, coincide with the areas of competence of other fishery commissions when existing. This system facilitates comparison of data, and improves the possibilities of cooperation in statistical matters in general.

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Date (Publication)
2008-02-15
Date (Revision)
2025-01-27
Date (Creation)
2008-02-15
Citation identifier
ac02a460-da52-11dc-9d70-0017f293bd28
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

FAO - Fisheries Management and Conservation Service

Fabio.Carocci@fao.org

Emmanuel.Blondel@fao.org

Author

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Statistical units

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • fishery

  • marine fishery

  • fisheries management

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Content on http://www.fao.org , its affiliated websites and specific pages (collectively \"the FAO website\") is protected by copyright. To ensure wide dissemination of its information, FAO is committed to making its content freely available and encourages the use, reproduction and dissemination of the text, multimedia and data products presented. Except where otherwise indicated, content may be copied, printed and downloaded for private study, research and teaching purposes, or for use in non-commercial products or services, provided that appropriate acknowledgement of FAO as the source and copyright holder is given and that FAO's endorsement of users' views, products or services is not stated or implied in any way. FAO encourages unrestricted use of news releases provided on the FAO website, and no formal permission is required to reproduce these materials. All requests for translation and adaptation rights, and for resale and other commercial use rights should be addressed to copyright@fao.org or submitted via the online Licence Request Form when downloading. Usage subject to mandatory citation: (c) FAO, 2014. FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department [online]. Rome. [Cited <DATE>] http://www.fao.org/fishery/area/search/en

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English
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities

EMODnet Human Activities

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?

fao_areas

OGC:WFS

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?

emodnet:fao_areas

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0d07002d-4aa1-4215-8915-1979d6ea5226/attachments/EMODnet_HA_FAO_Areas_20230926.zip

EMODnet_HA_FAO_Areas_20230926.zip

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Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2009-12-15
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

For various historical reasons the Areas in the Pacific were not so developed, with the exception of Area 87 corresponding to the CPPS area of competence. Initiatives for closer cooperation between agencies in the interest of better data, not only in the field of tunas, have suggested that some changes are necessary to the present FAO fishing areas/boundaries in the Pacific.

The boundaries of fishing areas could be modified and adjusted according to new requirements, but it is inadvisable to introduce too frequent amendments to the already established areas. Revisions to boundaries should only be introduced after consultation with all the national fishery authorities and fishery agencies concerned with the areas under revision. Unless there are other over-riding reasons, boundaries lines should be drawn along 5° lines of longitude and latitude.

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File identifier
0d07002d-4aa1-4215-8915-1979d6ea5226 XML
Metadata language
English
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Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-01-28T17:44:05.025835Z
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

apititto@cogea.it

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