Handbook of Fishery Statistical Standards COORDINATING WORKING PARTY ON FISHERY STATISTICS Handbook of Fishery Statistical Standards FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME, 2004 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission should be addressed to the Chief, Publishing Management Service, Information Division, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy or by e-mail to [email protected] © FAO 2004 iii PREFACE The eleventh Session of the Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics (CWP), conscious of the fact that source and reference documents related to the concepts and definitions used in fishery statistics are widely dispersed and not always readily available, proposed in 1982 that a “Handbook of Fishery Statistics” should be brought together. The first edition (in English) in 1990, based on a draft prepared by L.P.D.Gertenbach, shortly before he retired after many years as FAO’s Senior Fishery Statistician, and as Secretary of the CWP, was extensively developed, edited, restructered and completed by M.A.Robinson (Senior Fishery Statistician, FAO) and David G. Cross (Administrator, Fishery Statistics, Eurostat). In finalising the first edition, additional material was submitted by the secretariats of the CWP Member Agencies (CCAMLR, EUROSTAT, FAO, ICCAT, ICSEAF, ICES, NAFO and OECD). Spanish and French editions of the Handbook followed in 1993 and 1994 respectively. The content of the present publication, renamed “CWP Handbook of Fishery Statistical Standards”, is largely based on the 1990 edition but in addition to extensive revisions concerning CWP memberships, and relevant modifications to commissions’ statistical work, has been expanded to cover descriptions of the existing major fishing areas in the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Antarctic Oceans, and presents also eight new Sections on fishery related subjects. The CWP Handbook now covers all the intended range of fishery statistical concepts, definitions and classifications. The work involved in the expansion, revision and updating of the present edition was carried out by Fiorenza de Luca (formerly Fishery Statistician, FAO) under the guidance of Adele Crispoldi (Senior Fishery Statistician, FAO). Denis Berthier (Consultant, FAO) was responsible for the elaboration and presentation of maps. An html version, developed by Aureliano Gentile (Consultant, FAO), is available at: http://www.fao.org/figis/servlet/static?dom=root&xml=ontology/cwp/index.xml&xp_banner=fi The “CWP Handbook of Fishery Statistical Standards” is considered up-to-date as of its publication date of 30 November 2004. At this date the content of the html version (June 2004) is not entirely parallel to that of this publication. iv NOTE TO USERS In conceiving the Handbook of Fishery Statistics the CWP intended that it should cover the concepts, definitions and related matters as applied to fishery statistics of the Atlantic Ocean by the CWP Member Agencies. Presently this Handbook has been extended to cover all fishery matters related to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Antarctic and all adjacent waters, therefore, covering global information related and used by other fishery agencies and CWP Member Agencies in the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Antarctic Oceans. Many of these principles are applied in a wider context but the user is advised to check the validity of such applications. The Handbook was developed to indicate the principles applied by the international agencies. There has been no attempt to include details of national systems, many of which, having been developed for specific national purposes, differ from those used internationally. Authorities considering introducing or revising national statistical systems are requested to ensure that the system developed incorporates a high degree of compatibility with the international standards here described. In its efforts to develop useful and practical systems, the CWP is consistently keeping these standards under review and welcomes the comments of the national authorities on the application of these international standards at the national level. Comments should be addressed to: Senior Fishery Statistician Fishery Information Data and Statistics Unit FAO Fisheries Department 00153 Rome - Italy Fax : +39 06 5705 2476 http://www.fao.org/fi/default_all.asp FAO. Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics. Handbook of fishery statistical standards. Rome, FAO. 2004. 260p. v CONTENTS Section Page A. The CWP 1 B. Catch and landings 10 C. Nationality 12 D. Countries or areas 14 Annex D.I List of countries or areas by multilingual name 16 Annex D.II List of countries or areas by ISO 2-alpha code 21 E. Time units 26 F. Currencies and funds 27 Annex F.I List of currencies sorted by country or area multilingual name 28 Annex F.II List of currencies sorted by ISO currency code and country or area multilingual name 33 G. Fishing areas – General 38 H. Fishing areas for statistical purposes 43 Inland waters 45 Regional breakdown of FAO Major Marine Fishing Areas 55 Arctic Sea (Area 18) 69 Atlantic, Northwest (Area 21) 70 Atlantic, Northeast (Area 27) 81 Atlantic, Western Central (Area 31) 100 Atlantic, Eastern Central (Area 34) 104 Mediterranean and Black Sea (Area 37) 108 Atlantic, Southwest (Area 41) 112 Atlantic, Southeast (Area 47) 116 Indian Ocean, Western (Area 51) 120 Indian Ocean, Eastern (Area 57) 129 Pacific, Northwest (Area 61) 139 Pacific, Northeast (Area 67) 142 Pacific, Western Central (Area 71) 150 Pacific, Eastern Central (Area 77) 158 Pacific, Southwest (Area 81) 160 Pacific, Southeast (Area 87) 163 vi Possible modifications to boundaries of the Pacific and Indian Oceans 167 Antarctic and Southern Indian Ocean (Area 58) 181 Pacific, Antarctic (Area 88) 184 I. Conversion factors 186 Annex I.1 Indicative factors for converting product weight to live weight for a selection of major fishery commodities 189 J. Aquaculture 195 Annex J.I Classification proposed for various aquaculture and capture fisheries practices 198 K. Fishers 199 Annex K.I ISCO-88 International Standard Classification of Occupations: Major Group 6 202 L. Fishery fleet 203 Annex L.I International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishery Vessels by GRT Categories 205 Annex L.II International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishery Vessels by Vessel Types 206 Annex L.III Simplified Classification of Fishing Vessels by Vessel Types 208 Annex L.IV International Standard Statistical Classification of Vessels by Length Classes 208 Annex L.V Modification proposed for vessel types 209 M. Fishing gear 210 Annex M.I International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishing Gear 211 N. Fishing effort 213 Annex N.I Selected combinations of fishing gear and effort measures 215 O. Logbooks P. Supply balance sheets on apparent consumption 219 Annex P.I Supply and utilization 221 Q. Methodology 222 vii R. Fishery commodities classification 226 Annex R.I International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishery Commodities (in use until 1983) 227 Annex R.II International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishery Commodities 228 S. Identifiers for aquatic animals and plants 251 Annex S.I International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants (in use up to 1999) 253 Annex S.II International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants (in use from 2000) 255 T. STATLANT, STATPAC, FISHSTAT System of questionnaires 257 Annex T.I Statistical questionnaires for reporting fishery data 258 U. List of FAO Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics 259 V. Acronyms 260 A. THE CWP - COORDINATING WORKING PARTY ON FISHERY STATISTICS History An Expert Meeting on Fishery Statistics in the North Atlantic Area was organised by FAO and co-sponsored by ICES and ICNAF in Edinburgh (Scotland) on 22-29 September 1959 and was attended by 71 participants from 14 countries and 6 inter- governmental agencies. The Expert Group undertook reviews of the requirements of users of fishery statistics and of existing discrepancies in the standards used by FAO, ICES and ICNAF. More importantly it initiated the joint task of these agencies by proposing and encouraging, for a large variety of sectors within the overall fields of national, regional and global fishery statistics, harmonisation in the following important sectors of work in fishery statistics: - concepts and their definitions, - classification of craft, gear, species, areas, etc., - methods (including harmonised questionnaires), - simplification of reporting procedures. The Expert Meeting concluded its report (published in 1962 as FAO Fisheries Report no 3) as follows: (i) The Meeting invites the Governments of Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Iceland and the United Kingdom;