BalticSea:Recreational Fishing

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Recreational Fishing

Layer Info
Category	Activities
Subcategory	Recreational
Editable	Yes
Data type	Polygons
Types or Values
Very Low (0 - 1 kg/km2)
Low (1 - 10 kg/km2)
Medium (10 - 100 kg/km2)
High (100 - 500 kg/km2)

Description

Fishing for leisure purposes

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Data Source

HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Recreational fishing (ICES WGRFS)(2018)

Original Title

Recreational fishing

Description

"Recreational fishing yearly catches of cod 2011-2016 based on the reports of ICES Working Group on Recreational Fisheries Surveys (WGRFS). Recreational fishing is the capture or attempted capture of living aquatic resources mainly for leisure and/or personal consumption. This covers active fishing methods including line, spear, and hand–gathering and passive fishing methods including nets, traps, pots, and set–lines (considered recreational in some countries)."

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (15-07-2021), to note that there has been an update in 2018 but the data currently in the platform is from 2016.

Creation Date

N.A. Publication date: 2016-04-06.

Methodology

Implemented without any changes to the original files.