An analysis of historical national reports of inland capture fishery statistics in the Asia-Pacific region (1950-2007)

Inland capture fisheries in the Asia-Pacific region are undoubtedly some of the most important fisheries of the world and are feeding and employing millions of people in rural and riparian areas throughout eastern, southeastern and southern Asia. The massive, dispersed nature of many inland fisheries activities has challenged systems of information and data collection ever since trying to account for these fisheries as early as the 1700s. Since 1950, FAO has requested its member countries to report inland fisheries capture statistics as part of their fisheries reporting to the Organization. From these reported data, there is an apparent increasing trend in the production of global and regional inland fisheries during the period 1950-2007. However, it is not clear when viewing aggregated statistics whether this is due to an aggregated increase in production from all countries' inland fisheries, or due to large, occasional increases from individual countries. Moreover, there are many instances of unreported (or under-reported) catch in inland fisheries owing to the diffuse and small-scale nature of individual fisheries. This document presents the statistics for the region and examines the way in which large changes in inland catch data were identified and how the catch data were adjusted. The results of the study offer insight into the implications for interpreting trends in inland fisheries.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	1423211762995 Lymer, D., 177549 FAO, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific eng, 1423211761223 Funge-Smith, S.
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Bangkok (Thailand) FAO 2009
Subjects:	fishery data, fishery economics, yields, statistics,
Online Access:	http://www.fao.org/3/a-i1253e.pdf
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