SEA AROUND US PROJECT

Fisheries and Biodiversity

Information by area:

  COUNTRIES' EEZ   LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
  HIGH SEAS AREAS   WORLD OCEANS

Information by topic:

  Historic expeditions & surveys   Information by species   Marine catch maps
  4th World Fisheries Congress   West African fisheries   North Atlantic trends
  5 Year Retrospective (1999-2004)   Footprint analyses   Global MPAs

Project information:

Collaborations


Baltic Sea 2020
Baltic Sea Catches

Convention on Biological Diversity
Marine Trophic Index

Other project links
in progress. Please contact
us for possible collaboration.

The Sea Around Us Project investigates the impact of fisheries on the world's marine ecosystems. This is achieved by using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to map global fisheries catches from 1950 to the present, under explicit consideration of major critical habitats of fish, marine invertebrates, marine mammals and other components of marine biodiversity. The data presented, which are freely available, are meant to support studies of global fisheries trends and the development of sustainable, ecosystem-based fisheries policies.
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