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EMODnet Human Activities, Fisheries, Fishing Intensity

The datasets on fishing intensity in the EU waters by sea basin are created every year by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). In the 2020 Cogea started to collect and harmonize them according to the EMOdnet Human Activities dataset schema. The EMODnet dataset is updated yearly, as soon as new data from ICES Fishing Overviews are released, and is available for viewing and download on the EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). Where and when available, the fisheries overview fishing intensity data concern: i) the spatial distribution of average annual fishing effort (mW fishing hours) by ecoregion (Azores, Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Celtic Seas, Faroes, Greater North Sea, Icelandic Waters, Norwegian Sea and Oceanic Northeast Atlantic) and by gear type (Beam trawls, Bottom otter trawls, Bottom seines, Dredges, Pelagic trawls and seines, Static gears). Fishing effort data are only shown for vessels >12 m having vessel monitoring systems (VMS); ii) the average annual subsurface (top) and surface (bottom) mobile bottom contacting fishing gear (i.e. bottom otter trawls, bottom seines, dredges, beam trawls) disturbance by ecoregion in the Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Celtic Seas, Faroes, Greater North Sea, Icelandic Waters, Norwegian Sea and Oceanic Northeast Atlantic, expressed as average swept-area ratios (SAR). Due to data confidentiality issues, VMS/logbook data are anonymized and aggregated in a 0.05×0.05 degree grid prior to submission to ICES, using the C-squares geocode system (polygons). The last data loaded into the database, from the ICES 2024 Fishing Overview update or revision (where available), report the 2019-2022 averages. Historical data area also included in the database, starting from the 2020 fishing overview, and reporting the 2015-2018, 2017-2020, 2018-2021, and 2019-2020 averages.

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Date (Publication)
2020-02-26
Date (Revision)
2025-03-03
Date (Creation)
2020-02-16
Citation identifier
EMODnet_HA_Fisheries_Fishing_Intensity_20250303
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

luigi.falco@bip-group.com

Author

ICES

info@ices.dk

Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • Fisheries

Use limitation

Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (EMODnet - Human Activities, STECF, and the FAO) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. For further information on ICES's data policy, please visit https://www.ices.dk/marine-data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/default.aspx.

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Other restrictions
Other constraints

no limitation

Spatial representation type
Vector
Language
English
Topic category
  • Economy
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Begin date
2017-01-01
End date
2022-12-31
Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326
Reference system identifier
ISO 19108 calendar
Distribution format
Name Version

Esri geodatabase

unknown

Esri shapefile

unknown

Transfer size
0
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

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?

fishingbeamtrawls

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingbottomottertrawls

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingbottomseines

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingdredges

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingpelagic

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingstaticgears

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingsubsurface

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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

fishingsurface

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingbeamtrawls

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingbottomottertrawls

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingbottomseines

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingdredges

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingpelagic

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingstaticgears

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingsubsurface

OGC:WFS

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

emodnet:fishingsurface

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d57fbdea-489e-4e11-9ff1-f0f706cfe783/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Fisheries_FishingIntensity_20250303.zip

EMODnet_HA_Fisheries_FishingIntensity_20250303.zip

Hierarchy level
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

Validation and quality assurance remain up to primary data sources, e.g. ICES, while the harmonization is carried out by Cogea. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted. Generally speaking data are to be considered very reliable, because they come from the source officially in charge for their collection.The yearly Ecoregions ICES's data (shapefiles) on fishing intensity are harmonized, imported into a single geodatabase, organised in two different tables (Effort: Average MW fishing hours by gear type, SAR: Average surface and subsurface swept area ratio) and a single C-Squares feature class (polygons). The tables are related to the feature class via relationship classes (C-square field). Date fields have also been added. All information is pre-validated by ICES.

Metadata

File identifier
d57fbdea-489e-4e11-9ff1-f0f706cfe783 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-03-12T09:58:48.555852Z
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

luigi.falco@bip-group.com

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

overview

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