Fishing for leisure purposes
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HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Recreational fishing (ICES WGRFS)(2016)
Recreational fishing
"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), no note that there has been an update in 2018 but the data currently in the platform is from 2016.
N.A. Publication date: 2016-04-06
Implemented without any changes on the original files.
Co-funded by the European Union.