Fishing Activity for over 15 metre United Kingdom Vessels
Summary
This data set provides summaries of fishing activity for UK commercial fishing vessels of =15m length that are deemed to have been fishing within a specified calendar year. These summaries have been categorised into aggregated gear groups that have relevance to their potential impact on the seabed, environment, or biota. Positional data have been extracted from GPS-derived Vessel Monitoring Data. At the highest resolution, = 0.05 degree sub-rectangle, the following data items are provided aggregated between vessels using each of these gear types separately: Boat dredges, traps (not specified), pots, gillnets and entangling nets (not specified), gillnets (not specified), driftnets, set gillnets (anchored), trammel nets, hand fishing, mechanized dredges, hand lines and pole-lines (hand-operated), long lines (not specified), set long lines, hooks and lines (not specified), otter trawls (not specified), otter trawls bottom, otter trawls midwater, otter twin trawls, with purse lines (purse seines), pair trawls bottom, pair trawls midwater, Danish seines, pair seines, Scottish seines, seine nets not elsewhere specified, beam trawls, nephrops trawls, midwater trawls not elsewhere specified, shrimp trawls midwater, other trawls not specified): 1. For internal requests for information only, the number of =15m vessels involved using each gear type, 2. Time fishing (minutes), 3. From 2011 data onwards, effort in KW Hours (calculated by multiplying the time associated with each VMS report in hours by the engine power of the vessel concerned at the time of the activity) 4. Quantity (tonnes) of live weight fish landed with gear type, 5. Value (sterling) of live weight fish landed with gear type.
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Use limitation statement
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Licence
Open Government LicenceAttribution statement
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Technical information
Update frequency
asNeeded
Lineage
Data on fishing activity is 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 � 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 processes and collated into the IFISH repository holding full UK data on licensed commercial fishing activity.
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
- Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
bf55694c-3330-4c1d-a48e-db6bbe82ad77
Published by
Marine Management Organisation
Contact publisher
data@marinemanagement.org.ukDataset reference dates
Creation date
01 January 2007
Revision date
01 January 2020
Publication date
N/A
Period
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Data and Supporting Information
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Full downloads and supporting documentation | Format | Action |
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MMO_UK_Fishing_Activity_2014.lyr | LYR | Download |
MMO_UK_Fishing_Activity_2015.lyr | LYR | Download |
MMO_UK_Fishing_Activity_2016.lyr | LYR | Download |