FAO Fishing Areas
FAO Major Fishing Areas for Statistical Purposes are arbitrary areas, the boundaries of which were determined in consultation with international fishery agencies on various considerations, including (i) the boundary of natural regions and the natural divisions of oceans and seas; (ii) the boundaries of adjacent statistical fisheries bodies already established in inter-governmental conventions and treaties; (iii) existing national practices; (iv) national boundaries; (v) the longitude and latitude grid system; (vi) the distribution of the aquatic fauna; and (vii) the distribution of the resources and the environmental conditions within an area.
For various historical reasons the Areas in the Pacific were not so developed, with the exception of Area 87 corresponding to the CPPS area of competence. Initiatives for closer cooperation between agencies in the interest of better data, not only in the field of tunas, have suggested that some changes are necessary to the present FAO fishing areas/boundaries in the Pacific.
The boundaries of fishing areas could be modified and adjusted according to new requirements, but it is inadvisable to introduce too frequent amendments to the already established areas. Revisions to boundaries should only be introduced after consultation with all the national fishery authorities and fishery agencies concerned with the areas under revision. Unless there are other over-riding reasons, boundaries lines should be drawn along 5° lines of longitude and latitude.
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Identification info
- Alternate title
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FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes
- Alternate title
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FAO Fishery Statistical Areas
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-06-21T00:00:00
- Other citation details
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https://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home?uuid=ac02a460-da52-11dc-9d70-0017f293bd28
- Purpose
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The rationale of the FAO Major Fishing Areas has been that the areas should, as far as possible, coincide with the areas of competence of other fishery commissions when existing. This system facilitates comparison of data, and improves the possibilities of cooperation in statistical matters in general.
- Status
- Completed
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Economy
- Oceans
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords 5.3.8
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Oceans
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Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts
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- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Distributor FAO
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 84
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- C87D3321-618E-4D1A-8A46-49F706F59CED
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Point of contact CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Name
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dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-06-21T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2016-06-21T12:14:11
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Title
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Marine Community Profile
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-05-30
- Edition
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3.0
- Edition date
- 2019-05-30T00:00:00
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Custodian Marine Community Profile Governance Committee
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