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.

FIRMS, a global monitoring system, provides access to a wide range of high-quality information on the status and trends of marine fishery resources including their management. It draws together a unified partnership of international organizations, regional fishery bodies and, in the future, national scientific institutes, collaborating within formal agreement to... [read more]

A database of coastal state requirements for foreign fishing, consisting of a series of tables summarizing the provisions of national legislation and of bilateral and multilateral agreements governing foreign fishing in waters under national jurisdiction.

The system provides users with access to a variety of downloadable fishery statistics databases more detailed than those provided by FAOSTAT. Contains data on quantities and values of aquaculture production, capture production, trade and production of fishery products, as well as Eastern Central Atlantic and Mediterranean and Black Sea capture... [read more]

GISFish, is a "one stop" Web site from which to obtain the global experience on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and Mapping as applied to Aquaculture and Inland fisheries. GISFish sets out the issues in aquaculture and inland fisheries, and demonstrates the benefits of using GIS, remote sensing and... [read more]