Recreational Fishing

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Recreational Fishing

Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Recreational

Description

Fishing for leisure purposes

MSP Challenge

This is a static layer and does not contribute to the pressures on the ecossystem.

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Photo credit: "Recreational Fishing". Aquatic Sciences Center (2017). License: CC BY-NC 2.0. Not changed. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/uwiscseagrant/51827826187/

Types

North Sea types here

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for North Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the North Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the North Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd North Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge North Sea Edition.

Types

• Very Low (0 - 1 kg/km2)
• Low (1 - 10 kg/km2)
• Medium (10 - 100 kg/km2)
• High (100 - 500 kg/km2)

Metadata

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 (2021-07-15), to note that there has been an update in 2018 but the data currently in the platform is from 2016.

Creation Date

Not available. Publication date: 2016-04-06.

Methodology

Implemented without any changes to the original files.

Types

Clyde Marine Region types here

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Clyde Marine Region here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the Clyde Marine Region source.

Description

Enter the description of the Clyde Marine Region dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Types

Adriatic Sea types here

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Adriatic Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the Adriatic Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the Adriatic Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Adriatic Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.