Commercial Fisheries Landings for the South West Marine Management Organisation, 2013

Commercial fisheries landings data for 2013, extracted for the South West Marine Management Organisation Marine Plan Area. The data is aggregated to ICES Rectangles and includes values in both GBP and KG. It was published by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional fishing economic output based on GBP landings values.
• Model fish stock pressure based on KG landings aggregated by ICES rectangle.
• Assess the spatial distribution of commercial fishing activity within the SW MMO Marine Plan Area.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated to a standardized spatial unit (ICES rectangles) for geographic analysis.
• Includes dual economic (GBP) and physical (KG) measures of landings for the year 2013.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Extracted and aggregated from commercial fisheries records.

Time Range

2013

Geography

South West Marine Management Organisation (MMO) Marine Plan Area, aggregated to ICES Rectangles.