Glossary:Fish catch

From Statistics Explained

Fish catch (or simply catch) refers to catches of fishery products including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and other aquatic animals, residues and aquatic plants, that are taken:

• for all purposes (commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence);
• by all types and classes of fishing units (including fishermen, vessels, gear, etc.); that are
• operating in inland, fresh and brackish water areas, and in inshore, offshore and high-seas fishing areas.

Production from aquaculture is excluded. Catch is normally expressed in live weight and derived by the application of conversion factors to the actual landed or product weight. As such, the catch statistics exclude quantities of fishery products which are caught but which, for a variety of reasons, are not landed.

Further Eurostat information

• Commission Regulation 448/2005 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member State fishing in the North-East Atlantic
• Commission Regulation 1636/2001 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member State fishing in the North-West Atlantic
• Commission Regulation 1638/2001 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member State fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic

Related concepts

• Aquaculture

Statistical data

• Fishery statistics