Falkland Islands commercial catch data

The file provides daily records of catches from licensed vessels fishing within the FICZ and FOCZ. Falkland islands vessels are required to give record of every day they fish also if they fish outside FICZ and FOCZ, other licensed vessels provide records only in the licence period. Catches are currently recorded by grid squares (there are 4 grid squares in 1 degreeof lat and 2 grid squares in 1 degree of long, total 600 square km) but specific fisheries (trawling and longline) are also captured at higher resolution. The catches are recorded for the major commercial species such as squid, skate, hake, blue whiting, rock code, red code, toothfish, kingclip, hoki. It is worth noting that the list is not complete as there are records on minor commercial species as well. Data can be provided in an anonymysed and summarised format. The fisheries department release an annual report with data per vessel type, month, flag, GRT, general vessel detail, and species. The report is publicly available and available on request.