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FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes
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.
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FAO Fishery Statistical Areas
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-02-15
- Date (Revision)
- 2013-03-12
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-04-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-06-24
- Edition date
- 2020-02-12
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- 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.
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FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture Division
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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FAO
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FIGIS
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fishery
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fisheries
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fishing areas
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ocean management
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resource management
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FAO area
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World
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FAO
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Usage subject to mandatory citation: (c) FAO, 2024. FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division [online]. Rome. [Cited <DATE>] https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/area/search
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Disclaimer: The designations employed and the presentation of material in the map(s) are for illustration only and do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of FAO concerning the legal or constitutional status of any country, territory or sea area or concerning the delimitation of frontiers or boundaries.
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- Copyright
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- Copyright
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- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Economy
- Oceans
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- Supplemental Information
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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.
- Reference system identifier
- WGS84(DD)
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Geometric object count
- 322
- OnLine resource
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- Dataset
Metadata
- File identifier
- ac02a460-da52-11dc-9d70-0017f293bd28 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2024-06-25T09:35:31
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role FAO - Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. Statistics and Information
Emmanuel Blondel
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