Total commercial fisheries by gear type
Short description
The dataset contains information on commercial fishery in Baltic Sea in 2007 (Lithuanian data from 2008). Catches/landings are given per ICES rectangle, both as total values and per fishing gear type. The dataset contains information on commercial fishery in Baltic Sea in 2007 (Lithuanian data from 2008). Catches/landings are given per ICES rectangle, both as total values and per fishing gear type. The gear categories are: 0 = unspecified, 1 = surface and mid-water gears, 2 = bottom trawling gears and 3 = coastal and stationary gears. All values are in tons. Data was requested from HELCOM contracting parties through HELCOM HOLAS project. Landings/ catches data from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is based on national data, while Russian data is based on the ICES report "Report of the Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group (WGBFAS)" (2008). Commercial fishery data was reported by the following persons/authorities to HELCOM Secretariat: Germany:Dr. Christopher Zimmermann (Institut für Ostseefischerei (OSF), Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI), Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei) Lithuania: Open sea: Irina Jakovleva (Fisheries Reguliation Division, Baltic Sea Fisheries Department, Fisheries Department under the Ministry of Agriculture); coastal: Rimantas Repecka (Head of Laboratory of Marine Ecology, Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University) Sweden: Jarl Engquist (Avdelningen för fiskerikontroll, Swedish Board of Fisheries) Latvia: Marina Fettere (Fishery and Information section, Latvian Fish Resources Agency) Finland: Pirkko Söderkultalahti (Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute) Estonia: Ministry of Agriculture Denmark: Troels Pade (The Danish Directorate of Fisheries, Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries) Russia: no contact person, data from ICES reports Poland: Malgorzata Marciniewicz-Mykieta (Departament Monitoringu i Informacji o Srodowisku, Glówny Inspektorat Ochrony Srodowiska).
Point of contact
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi
Spatial extent
['8.638663', '33.930207', '52.523497', '66.478178']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Habitats and biotopes ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;

commercial fishery ; GEMET ;

MADS ;

Resource provider(s)
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi

Lineage
Data was requested from HELCOM contracting parties through HELCOM HOLAS project. Data from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is based on national data, while Russian data is based on the ICES report "Report of the Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group (WGBFAS)" (2008). The fishery data was reported as both catches and landings by the countries. The catches/landings were mainly reported per ICES rectangle but Lithuanian coastal data and the whole Russian data was obtained per ICES subdivisions. The data was therefore divided equally between the smaller ICES rectangles in each subdivision. In this dataset the catches/landings from all countries have been summed per ICES rectangle to get a total value per rectangle. Furthermore, the total catches/landings are summed per fishing gear type. The gear categories include the following gears as reported by the countries: 0 = Unspecified 1= Surface and mid-water gears (mid-water otter and pair trawls, Danish seine, pelagic trawls, drift nets, trolling lines, drifting longlines, unspecified longlines) 2= Bottom trawling gears (Scottish seines, demersal seines, boat dredges, bottom otter trawls, beam trawls, otter twin trawls and unspecified bottom trawls) 3=Coastal and stationary gears (traps, barriers, fences, weirs, pound nets and pot gears) The ICES rectangle shape file has been created by the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research (DIFRES) for non-commercial purposes. The rectangle layer has been cut to match the Baltic Sea area. Each rectangle has an ICES id.