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Italian official Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea) landings between 1953 and 2012
Citable as data publication
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Italy; Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy; (2020): Italian official Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea) landings between 1953 and 2012. https://doi.org/10.14284/395
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National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS); Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy; (2017): Italian official Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea) landings between 1953 and 2012 . https://doi.org/10.14284/289
Contact: Fortibuoni, Tomaso

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
Italian annual landings (1953–2012) for the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea originated from official Italian statistics on the fishery, reported by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) from 1953 to 2004, and by the Institute for Economic Research in Fishery and Aquaculture (IREPA) from 2005 to 2012. more

Until 2001, landings were published in the ISTAT annual bulletins (printed format) while after 2002 they were available in digital format. The method of landings data collection changed in 2005. ISTAT collected monthly landings data (census survey) at Marine Compartment level from Port Authorities using standardised paper templates, while IREPA performed sample surveys applying the Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) technique following ISTAT guidelines. In the dataset, landings are aggregated at the level of Italian administrative regions (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Abruzzo and Molise) and do not include discarded, illegal and unreported catches. In the original documents, species were cited with their common names, thus it was necessary to attribute them their scientific name. Common names reported in the original documents changed over time, and they were updated according to the actual official name as defined by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies in 2008. Overall, information on 120 marketed categories are available in the dataset (15,077 records), but the taxonomic resolution of landings changed over time ranging from a minimum of 31 (1958) to a maximum of 81 categories (1955-1957). Marketed categories may include one or more species. Multispecies categories usually group taxonomically similar species, i.e. species of the same genus or family. The statistics are referred to landings from capture sea- and freshwater-fisheries in the Adriatic Sea landed by Italian boats.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish, Fisheries, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Historical records, Marine ecology, Marine Historical Ecology, self-propelled boat, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Adriatic Sea, Crustacea, Mollusca, Pisces

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 16,0356; MinLat: 42,7294 - MaxLong: 16,0356; MaxLat: 42,7294 [WGS84]
MED, Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1953 - 2012

Taxonomic coverage
Crustacea [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Pisces [WoRMS]

Parameter
Wet weight biomass (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]

Contributors
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), moredata creator
Fortibuoni, Tomaso
Libralato, Simone
Solidoro, Cosimo
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Branch office Chioggiadata creator
Fortibuoni, Tomaso
Raicevich, Saša
Giovanardi, Otello

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Project
HMAP: History of Marine Animal Populations

Publication
Based on this dataset
Fortibuoni, T. et al. (2015). Climate impact on Italian fisheries (Mediterranean Sea). Reg. environ. Change 15(5): 931-937. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-015-0781-6
Fortibuoni, T. et al. (2010). Coding early Naturalists' accounts into long-term fish community changes in the Adriatic Sea (1800–2000). PLoS One 5(11): e15502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015502
Describing this dataset
Fortibuoni, T. et al. (2017). Fish and fishery historical data since the 19th century in the Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean. Scientific Data 4: 170104. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.104

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2017-03-01
Information last updated: 2022-08-03
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