Fishing for leisure purposes.
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 flickr.com on 2022-09-14.
Not applicable.
This layer is not available in the North Sea Edition.
HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Recreational fishing (ICES WGRFS)(2018) , retrieved from HELCOM in 206-06.
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 (2021-07-15), to note that there has been an update in 2018 but the data currently in the platform is from 2016.
Not available. Publication date: 2016-04-06.
Implemented without any changes to the original files.
The Recreational Fishing layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.
This layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.
This layer is not available in the Adriatic Sea Edition.
This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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