Fisheries Data for the ICES Area

These are brought together and reviewed by the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management. Their report, published annually in the ICES Co-operative Research Report series, provides information on landings, recruitment, spawning biomass, fishing mortality etc. and also identifies the information sources, which are usually the reports of specific Working Groups.

The information is derived from sampling or census (landings, number at age in the landings, weight at age, maturity) and from the output of various sequential population models (number at age in the population, fishing mortality). All the information is susceptible to revision as methods are revised, new data become available and models are re-run. Care is needed to understand how the information was derived and what it can be used for.