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SUBMITTER: Rousseau Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10774419 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rousseau Yannick Y Blanchard Julia L JL Novaglio Camilla C Pinnell Kirsty A KA Tittensor Derek P DP Watson Reg A RA Ye Yimin Y
Scientific data 20240108 1
A new database on historical country-level fishing fleet capacity and effort is described, derived from a range of publicly available sources that were harmonized, converted to fishing effort, and mapped to 30-min spatial cells. The resulting data is comparable with widely used but more temporally-limited satellite-sourced Automatic Identification System (AIS) datasets for large vessels, while also documenting important smaller fleets and artisanal segments. It ranges from 1950 to 2017, and incl ...[more]