University of British Columbia

Description

The Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia built (since 1999) and maintains a global information system of reconstructed capture fisheries time series (1950-2016) for all maritime countries of the world. This is based on the FAO fisheries statistics landings (reported), that the Sea Around Us separates into catch data for industrial (mostly reported), artisanal (mostly unreported), subsistence (unreported) and recreational (unreported) fishing sectors. Unreported data obtained from scientific, historical and other sources provide added value to the reconstructed catch data, which are then allocated to half degree water cells of all the world’s oceans based on access agreements and geographic distribution of exploited species.

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Contact Name: Maria Lourdes Deng Palomares

Website: http://www.ubc.ca/

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