GUIDELINES FOR COLLECTION AND COMPILATION OF FISHERY STATISTICS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Management of fisheries requires date
1.2. The nature of the fish resource and the methods for studying it
1.3. The structure and operation of the fishing industry

2. THE BASIC DATA REQUIREMENT

2.1. The qualities of the data related to their use
2.2. Data for stock assessment


2.2.1. Catch
2.2.2. Effort and catch-per-effort
2.2.3. Other requirements for stock assessment

2.3. Data requirements for study of the fishing industry

2.3.1. Statistics of the structure and operation of the primary phase
2.3.2. Statistics of the secondary and tertiary phase

3. COLLECTING THE DATA

3.1. Organization and costs
3.2. Collecting from large scale industrialized. Fisheries
3.3. Collecting from small scale artisanal fisheries
3.4. Collecting statistics at the regional and international level

4. PROCESSING AND PUBLISHING THE STATISTICS

4.1. The qualities of the statistics produced, related to their use
4.2. Processing

5. SHORTCOMINGS IN THE APPROACH AND A FORWARD LOOK

6.GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

7. REFERENCES