Catch Data, Stock Status, and Associated Methods for Cook Islands for years 1950-2016 - SeaAroundUs

This resource is a zip file containing the aggregated catch data (.csv) for the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, relevant literature, and methods/metadata for the tabular catch data.

Please note that the data (‘reconstructed data’) are a combination of official reported data and reconstructed estimates of unreported data (including major discards). Official reported data are mainly extracted from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) FishStat database (found here: http://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/en).

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Example: For the Mexican Pacific EEZ, the citation should be “Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Cisneros-Mata MA, Harper S and Pauly D (2015) Unreported marine fisheries catch in Mexico, 1950-2010. Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2015-22, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 9 p.”, which is accessible on the EEZ page for Mexico (Pacific) on seaaroundus.org.

Additonal Information

Field Value
mimetype application/zip
filesize 2.28 MB
timestamp Mon, 09/26/2022 - 09:00
Source URL http://www.seaaroundus.org/