{"id": 1354501, "name": "Wild fish catch from purse seines", "unit": "tonnes", "createdAt": "2026-10-24T21:20:28.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-24T21:20:28.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1950-2018", "datasetId": 8241, "shortUnit": "t", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "purse_seine", "catalogPath": "grapher/sea_around_us/2026-10-24/fish_catch/fish_catch#purse_seine", "descriptionShort": "Estimated catch of fish and other marine animals caught by industrial fishing with purse seines, large nets that encircle a school of fish and are then closed at the bottom.", "descriptionProcessing": "Sea Around Us data goes up to 2019, but its 2019 figures look unfinished for several large fishing countries. For example, it counts almost all of Peru\u2019s anchoveta catch, which is mostly turned into fishmeal and fish oil, as eaten directly by people; it doesn\u2019t say which gear caught large parts of the catch of Peru, Indonesia, and India; and Japan\u2019s catch is about 20% higher than Japan\u2019s and FAO\u2019s official figures. Because of this, we only show on our charts data up to 2018.\n\nSea Around Us lists some overseas fleets separately from the country they belong to. We add them to that country: the Azores and Madeira to Portugal; Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to Saint Helena; and Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius to Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "Sea Around Us reconstructed marine fisheries catch", "updatePeriodDays": 1095, "datasetVersion": "2026-10-24", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Purse seine", "unit": "tonnes", "shortUnit": "t", "tolerance": 3, "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Wild fish catch from purse seines", "attributionShort": "Sea Around Us", "topicTagsLinks": ["Fish & Overfishing"]}, "descriptionKey": "- Sea Around Us estimates which fishing gear caught each part of the catch, based on the gears each country\u2019s fleets use for each species. Catch by industrial fishing is split into [bottom trawls](#dod:bottom-trawl-fishing), [pelagic trawls](#dod:pelagic-trawl-fishing), [purse seines](#dod:purse-seine-fishing), [longlines](#dod:longline-fishing) and other lines, [gillnets](#dod:gillnet-fishing), and other gear. Catch by [small-scale fishing](#dod:small-scale-fishing) (artisanal, subsistence, and recreational) is counted as \u201csmall-scale gear\u201d, whatever gear is used.\n- Sea Around Us attempts to reconstruct the full catch of each country. It starts from the official figures that countries report to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and adds estimates of the catch these figures leave out, such as much of the catch by small-scale, subsistence, and recreational fishers, unreported catch by industrial fleets, and the fish thrown back into the sea. These estimates draw on scientific studies, government reports, and local experts.\n- The catch of each country is the catch of its own fishers and fleets, wherever they fish: in its own waters, in other countries\u2019 waters, or on the high seas. The world total also includes catch whose fishing country is unknown.\n- This data covers marine fish and invertebrates (such as shrimp, squid, and crabs). It does not include marine mammals, reptiles, corals, sponges, seaweed, freshwater fishing, or fish farming (aquaculture).", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 16, "name": "Albania", "code": "ALB"}, {"id": 17, "name": "Algeria", "code": "DZA"}, {"id": 19, "name": "Angola", "code": "AGO"}, {"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 29, "name": "Barbados", "code": "BRB"}, {"id": 31, "name": "Belize", "code": "BLZ"}, {"id": 32, "name": "Benin", "code": "BEN"}, {"id": 194, "name": "Bermuda", "code": "BMU"}, {"id": 35, "name": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "code": "BIH"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 196, "name": "British Virgin Islands", "code": "VGB"}, {"id": 38, "name": "Brunei", "code": "BRN"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 42, "name": "Cambodia", "code": "KHM"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 45, "name": "Cape Verde", "code": "CPV"}, {"id": 197, "name": "Cayman Islands", "code": "CYM"}, {"id": 304, "name": "Channel Islands", "code": "OWID_CIS"}, {"id": 172, "name": "Chile", "code": "CHL"}, {"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 168, "name": "Congo", "code": "COG"}, {"id": 199, "name": "Cook Islands", "code": "COK"}, {"id": 166, "name": "Costa Rica", "code": "CRI"}, {"id": 143, "name": "Cote d'Ivoire", "code": "CIV"}, {"id": 165, "name": "Croatia", "code": "HRV"}, {"id": 164, "name": "Cuba", "code": "CUB"}, {"id": 279, "name": "Curacao", "code": "CUW"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 200, "name": "Dominica", "code": "DMA"}, {"id": 201, "name": "Ecuador", "code": "ECU"}, {"id": 65, "name": "Egypt", "code": "EGY"}, {"id": 259, "name": "El Salvador", "code": "SLV"}, {"id": 159, "name": "Equatorial Guinea", "code": "GNQ"}, {"id": 156, "name": "Estonia", "code": "EST"}, {"id": 250, "name": "Faroe Islands", "code": "FRO"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 203, "name": "French Polynesia", "code": "PYF"}, {"id": 153, "name": "Gabon", "code": "GAB"}, {"id": 151, "name": "Gambia", "code": "GMB"}, {"id": 152, "name": "Georgia", "code": "GEO"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 150, "name": "Ghana", "code": "GHA"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 205, "name": "Greenland", "code": "GRL"}, {"id": 206, "name": "Grenada", "code": "GRD"}, {"id": 148, "name": "Guatemala", "code": "GTM"}, {"id": 147, "name": "Guinea", "code": "GIN"}, {"id": 139, "name": "Honduras", "code": "HND"}, {"id": 144, "name": "Hong Kong", "code": "HKG"}, {"id": 207, "name": "Iceland", "code": "ISL"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 135, "name": "Iran", "code": "IRN"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 204, "name": "Kiribati", "code": "KIR"}, {"id": 122, "name": "Latvia", "code": "LVA"}, {"id": 120, "name": "Libya", "code": "LBY"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 116, "name": "Malaysia", "code": "MYS"}, {"id": 212, "name": "Malta", "code": "MLT"}, {"id": 223, "name": "Marshall Islands", "code": "MHL"}, {"id": 114, "name": "Mauritania", "code": "MRT"}, {"id": 213, "name": "Mauritius", "code": "MUS"}, {"id": 193, "name": "Mayotte", "code": "MYT"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 222, "name": "Micronesia (country)", "code": "FSM"}, {"id": 215, "name": "Montenegro", "code": "MNE"}, {"id": 110, "name": "Morocco", "code": "MAR"}, {"id": 109, "name": "Mozambique", "code": "MOZ"}, {"id": 142, "name": "Myanmar", "code": "MMR"}, {"id": 108, "name": "Namibia", "code": "NAM"}, {"id": 218, "name": "Nauru", "code": "NRU"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 105, "name": "Nicaragua", "code": "NIC"}, {"id": 390, "name": "Northern Cyprus", "code": "OWID_CYN"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 140, "name": "Palestine", "code": "PSE"}, {"id": 100, "name": "Panama", "code": "PAN"}, {"id": 99, "name": "Papua New Guinea", "code": "PNG"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 230, "name": "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "code": "VCT"}, {"id": 232, "name": "Sao Tome and Principe", "code": "STP"}, {"id": 89, "name": "Senegal", "code": "SEN"}, {"id": 233, "name": "Seychelles", "code": "SYC"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 195, "name": "Solomon Islands", "code": "SLB"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 141, "name": "Sri Lanka", "code": "LKA"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 198, "name": "Taiwan", "code": "TWN"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 237, "name": "Tuvalu", "code": "TUV"}, {"id": 67, "name": "Ukraine", "code": "UKR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 221, "name": "Vanuatu", "code": "VUT"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 28242, "title": "Sea Around Us reconstructed marine fisheries catch", "description": "Sea Around Us, a research initiative at the University of British Columbia, estimates how much fish and other marine animals the world\u2019s fishers catch each year, from 1950 onward.\n\nMost countries report their catch to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), but these official figures leave out a lot: much of the catch by small-scale, subsistence, and recreational fishers, unreported catch by industrial fleets, and the fish thrown back into the sea. Sea Around Us attempts to reconstruct the full catch of each country by combining the official figures with estimates of these missing parts, drawn from scientific studies, government reports, and local experts.\n\nThe catch is given in tonnes and broken down by fishing country (the country of the fleet doing the fishing), by fishing sector (industrial, artisanal, subsistence, recreational), by type of fishing gear, by what the catch is used for (eaten directly by people, turned into fishmeal and fish oil, mostly for animal feed, or other uses), by whether it was brought to land or thrown back, and by whether it appears in official statistics.\n\nThe catch of marine mammals, reptiles, corals, sponges, and seaweed is not included, nor is fish farming (aquaculture).", "producer": "Sea Around Us", "citationFull": "Pauly D., Zeller D., Palomares M.L.D. (Editors), 2020. Sea Around Us Concepts, Design and Data (seaaroundus.org).", "urlMain": "https://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/global", "dateAccessed": "2026-10-24", "datePublished": "2022-11-17", "license": {"url": "https://www.seaaroundus.org/citation-policy/", "name": "CC BY-NC 4.0"}}]}