The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department provides advice and objective information to Members to help promote responsible aquaculture and fisheries. To fulfil this role, the Department compiles, analyses and disseminates fishery data, structured within data collections. [more...]

Statistical collections

To ensure quality assurance, each collection is documented to highlight definitions and to specify the structure, sources, coverage, processes, intended use, etc. This is further complemented with the CWP handbook of fishery statistical standards which includes comprehensive definitions of concepts and details of standard classifications.

Available products: Global time series are maintained over 50 year time spans. To meet diverse user needs, data from each statistical collection are available through various formats, tools and information products:

Summary tables of fishery statistics provide an at-a-glance overview for the general public (downloadable in PDF)

Yearbooks provide a full range of tables with detailed statistics

Online query panels enable advanced users to extract customized information and reports

FishStat Plus - Universal software for fishery statistical time series offers experts and scientists a stand-alone application for complex and sophisticated data exploration and extraction

Other data collections

Other data collections, also fully-documented, are organized by records, Fact Sheets and maps, thus complementing the overall statistical collections ... full list of data collections

Software

A collection of fishery software is available for diverse user needs, ranging from fishery statistical applications through biologic, socio-economic, or ecosystem modelling for fisheries assessment ... full list of software