Fishing Intensity (ICES)
Welsh Government
Spatial data layers of fishing intensity in 2017 by fishing method, produced by ICES as a technical service to OSPAR to identify pressure by gear type for surface and sub-surface abrasion.
The swept area ratio (SAR), also known as fishing intensity, is the cumulative area contacted by a fishing gear within a grid cell over one year divided by the surface area of the grid cell. Fishing intensity has been identified from relevant VMS (Vessel Monitoring Systems) and logbook data. These data layers display estimates of surface and sub-surface SAR, aggregated by high-level gear types (beam trawl, dredge, demersal seine, otter trawl), and all gear types (i.e. total) making a total of 19 different metier (ie gear type) layers.
Please refer to the ICES Technical Service document for further information: ICES. 2018. ICES Technical Service: OSPAR request on the production of spatial data layers of fishing intensity/pressure. In Report of the ICES Advisory Committee, 2019, sr.2018.14.
Note that caveats described within the technical service document apply when interpreting these maps.
Attribution statement
ICES. 2019. OSPAR request 2018 for spatial data layers of fishing intensity/pressure. Data Outputs.
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Spatial data (8)
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Otter Trawl - Surface
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Total - Sub-surface
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Scallop Dredge
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Demersal Seine - Surface
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Beam Trawl
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Total - Surface
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Otter Trawl - Sub-surface
- Fishing Intensity (ICES) - Demersal Seine - Sub-surface
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- Type:
- Spatial data
- Category:
- Oceans
- Publication date:
- 23 January 2020
- Licence:
- Not Specified
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- Point of contact:
- data@gov.wales
- Language
- English