Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Catch, Effort and National/Regional Data Sets
Landings and Efforts in Norwegian Fisheries
Frank Asche and Siv Grønning
Centre for Fisheries Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and BusinessAbstract
The present report documents official Norwegian fisheries catches (tonnage and value) from 1950-1999 for principal commercial species, based on data from the Directorate of Fisheries, Norway. Some information on broad spatial breakdown of catches are also available. Furthermore, fishing effort by major gear types, listing number of sea-days, average vessel length and tonnage, and number of vessels are also summarized, although temporal coverage varies by gear type and only starts in the late 1960s.