Sea Around Us - Fisheries, ecosystem & biodiversity
The Sea Around Us is a research initiative at The University of British Columbia (located at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, formerly Fisheries Centre) that assesses the impact of fisheries on the marine ecosystems of the world, and offers mitigating solutions to a range of stakeholders.
The Sea Around Us was initiated in collaboration with The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1999, and in 2014, the Sea Around Us also began a collaboration with The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to provide African and Asian countries with more accurate and comprehensive fisheries data.
It provides data and analyses through View Data, articles in peer-reviewed journals, and other media (News). We regularly update our products at the scale of countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones, Large Marine Ecosystems, the High Seas and other spatial scales, and as global maps and summaries.
It emphasises catch time series starting in 1950, and related series (e.g., landed value and catch by flag state, fishing sector and catch type), and fisheries-related information on every maritime country (e.g., government subsidies, marine biodiversity). Information is also offered on sub-projects, e.g., the historic expansion of fisheries, the performance of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, or the likely impact of climate change on fisheries.
The information and data presented on this website is freely available to any user, granted that its source is acknowledged. We are aware that this information may be incomplete. Please let us know about this via the feedback options available on this website.
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University of British Columbia (Canada)
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address ORCID Role Sea Around Us
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- Oceans
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/Human activities/Fisheries
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/Biological oceanography/Fish
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Terms of use: http://www.seaaroundus.org/terms-and-conditions/
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Sea Around Us website
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Data and tools
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https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4a85f6b9-f18e-4521-b9e1-586a6363cbe0
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- 2021-12-14T15:57:58Z
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- 2025-05-15T22:16:04.065406Z
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