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Landings and proportion of landings of commercial fish and shellfish for which stock assessments were conducted between 2016-2020 per marine region

Figure Created 04 Aug 2022 Published 05 Aug 2022 Last modified 28 Mar 2023

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

The figure shows the proportion of commercial European fish landings assessed per regional sea distinguishing between assessed and non-assessed stocks. For the assessed stocks a distinction is made between (i) landings of stocks for which information is available to determine Good Environmental Status (GES) for Fishing mortality (F) and/or Spawning Stock Biomass (SSB) and (ii) landings for stocks for which information is not available to determine GES for F and/or SSB.

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Units:: Kilotonnes
Rights:: - Copyrights of the datasets:
1) “Stock assessment database (ICES)” and “Catch statistics (ICES)”: ICES data policyhttps://www.ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx
Publication Reports - ICES-Data-policy.pdf https://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=38361
2) “Capture production (GFCM)”: http://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/en/
3) ”Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, STECF (STECF 21-01 adhoc)”: https://ec.europa.eu/info/legal-notice_en
4) “Catches by fishing area (fish_ca)”: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/fisheries/legislation

- Copyrights of the figure: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Figure type:: Map

Additional information

• Based on data available in the period 2016-2020; data for the North-East Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea are mainly from 2019; data for the Mediterranean and Black seas are mainly from 2018 (not all stocks have annual assessments).
• A distinction is made between (1) landings for assessed stocks for which adequate information is available to determine GES for F and SSB, (2) landings for assessed stocks for which insufficient information is available to determine GES for F or SSB, and (3) assessed stocks for which the available information on both F and SSB is insufficient to determine GES. For further information, see the Methodology section, on how this distinction is made, and European Commission Decision 2017/848/EU on criteria and methodological standards on GES of marine waters.

Geographical coverage
Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) regions and sub-regions - Macaronesia (Azores), Baltic Sea, Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast, Celtic Seas, Greater North Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea; Arctic Ocean and widely distributed.