Fish Population Dynamic and Stock Assessment

1.7.6. Fisheries Indicators and data sources

Statistical information needed are:

· Total Allowable Catch(TAC), Quotas, by species,

· Quantity and value of landings, by species

· Employment (total; full and part-time; male/female; capture fisheries/ aquaculture/ processing industry)

· Fleet capacity (number of boats, by length or by GT/GRT)

· Quantity and value of aquaculture production by species,

· Recreational fisheries (estimates concerning the production and the number of people involved),

· Trade in fish and fish products (by main species and main partners).

· Government financial transfers relating to the marine capture, aquaculture and processing sectors.

· Status of fish stock

In broad terms, the Pressure State Response (PSR) framework aims to identify the pressure on the environment from human and economic activities, which lead to changes in the state or environmental conditions that prevail as a result of that pressure, and may provoke responses by society to change the pressures and the state of the environment.