The data describes fishing effort by year, targeted functional group, and fishing gear. Fishing effort estimates were derived from country-level fishing fleet capacity data publicly available, following the method described in Rousseau et al (2019; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820344116) and methods improvement reported in Rousseau et al. (2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02824-6). The data coverage is global, but estimates are given at the Exclusive Economic Zone-, Large Marine Ecosystem-, and Food Agriculture Organisation-level. The data was collected for a wide range of uses, including to inform global and regional marine ecosystem models and to understand the long-term evolution of fishing and its socio-ecological implications in the global ocean.
For ISIMIP participants, these files are available for download on the DKRZ cluster server using the path /work/bb0820/ISIMIP/ISIMIP3a/InputData/socioeconomic/fishing/
For external users, these data can be downloaded from the ISIMIP Repository using the link below.
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