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dataset
Marine Management Organisation
Statistician
Statistics@marinemanagement.org.uk
pointOfContact
2016-06-21
MEDIN Discovery metadata standard
2.3.8
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
United Kingdom fleet landings by ICES rectangle 2012
UK fleet landings by ICES rectangle 2012
Sea Fisheries Statistics 2012
2013-09-26
publication
2015-09-24
creation
2015-09-24
revision
MMO1600169
This data set provides summaries of fishing activity for UK commercial fishing vessels that are deemed to have been fishing within a specified calendar year. These summaries have been aggregated by month of landing, the ICES division and rectangle fishing activity took place in, the length group of the vessel and the gear group used. For each aggregation the quantity (tonnes) of live weight fish landed, the actual landed weight (tonnes) and value (sterling) of live weight fish landed are given for specific species, with the remaining species combined into a composite group based on the species group they are classified to. The gear categories are comprised as follows; beam trawl; pelagic seine; demersal trawl and seine (includes all trawl gears except beam trawl) and all seine gears (except purse seine); dredges; drift and fixed nets; gears using hooks; other mobile gears; other passive gears; and pots and traps. More information on the exact nature of fishing gears can be found at:
http://www.fao.org/fishery/topic/1617/en
Marine Management Organisation
Statistician
Statistics@marinemanagement.org.uk
originator
Marine Management Organisation
Statistician
Statistics@marinemanagement.org.uk
custodian
annually
Delimited
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Species distribution
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-01-06
revision
Fish and shellfish catch statistics
SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary
2009-11-16
revision
Open Government Licence. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Acknowledgement of the Marine Management Organisation is required.
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No limitations on access, however copyright should be used at all times.
English
biota
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14.8969
36.4452
69.5418
2012-01-01
2012-12-31
Marine Management Organisation
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accesstoinformation@marinemanagement.org.uk
distributor
http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/527456/UK_fleet_landings_by_ICES_rectangle_2012.csv
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http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/uk-fleet-landings-by-ices-rectangle
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dataset
Data on fishing activity are taken from the IFISH data system. This is a UK repository of key elements of the administrative data commercial fishermen are required to report under EU legislation to enable competent authorities to monitor and manage their activity. There are three key sources of data â?? the logbook of activity while at sea, the landing declaration recording the accurate weight of fish when landed, and sales notes created when the fish are first sold after landing. The first two of these are required from all fishermen operating vessels over 10 metres overall length, the sales notes information is required for sales by all licensed vessels irrespective of length. The data includes the species, weight and value of fish landed along with details of the vessel involved, where the fish was caught, and with what gear. These data are collected by the four fisheries administrations within the UK, checked and validated and collated into the IFISH repository holding full UK data on licensed commercial fishing activity. The finest available level of spatial resolution for activity data within IFISH is an ICES rectangle. Each rectangle represents an area of the sea that measures 0.5 degrees of latitude by 1 degree of longitude.