Subject: Global fishing ground area trawled

From: [email-masked] (Don McAllister)
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 19:56:50 GMT

I am preparing a report on status of global marine
and coastal biodiversity.  Can anyone point me
to a publication that gives the total area in
square km or miles that is subject to fish/crustacean
trawling and shellfish dredging around the world,
and to a map showing such trawled areas?

Thanks for any help.

Don
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From: [email-masked] (T J Kenchington)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 12:28:05 GMT

Don McAllister ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I am preparing a report on status of global marine
: and coastal biodiversity.  Can anyone point me
: to a publication that gives the total area in
: square km or miles that is subject to fish/crustacean
: trawling and shellfish dredging around the world,
: and to a map showing such trawled areas?

: Thanks for any help.

: Don

If any such publication exists, I would strongly recommend that it be 
disregarded. I have mapped fishing grounds off Atlantic Canada, working 
>from  extensive interviews with fishermen, and found that the areas 
actually fished were quite unlike anything that might have been guessed 
>from  previous official records. From working in various developing 
nations, I suspect that written records of their fishing grounds are even 
less reliable than the Canadian equivalent.

In short, I really doubt that any worthwhile data have been collected for 
more than a very few of the world's fisheries. And without data, any 
summary report must be worthless.

Trevor Kenchington
[email-masked]