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Results

Landing sites, catch rates, species, gear and prices from the catch assessment and frame surveys in FAIMS. Pick a lake and a country to see what its survey says.

trips recorded
484,770
landing sites mapped
1,232
species in the catch
395
countries
8
Choose a fishery
Landing sites Circle size: trips sampled in the last 12 months. Colour: catch per trip, sites with 30 trips or more.
Catch per trip by month Mean kg per sampled trip
Species in the sampled catch Share of sampled weight
Gear in use Share of sampled trips
Beach price per kg Mean price, top species
Estimated total catch Raised with the frame survey, years that pass the quality checks

Figures are refreshed from FAIMS every night. They are provisional and not for citation. Values stay in each country’s currency.

Method

How the figures are made

Enumerators weigh the catch of a sample of boats. The frame survey says how many boats of each kind fish from each site. FAIMS combines the two, month by month and district by district, following FAO sample-based survey methods. The catch assessment page walks through every step with a real example.

The catch assessment method in full
Total catch per stratum = fishing units × fishing activity × days in month × mean catch per trip
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 425 LVFO catch assessment SOPs
  • Census

    Frame survey counts

    Fishers, boats and gear at every landing site. Describes the fleet.

  • Sample

    Trips and sampled catch

    What enumerators weighed. Describes the survey, never labelled total catch.

  • Ratio

    Catch per trip, prices, shares

    Describe the fishery. Shown only with 30 trips or more.

  • Raised

    Total catch and value

    Describe the fishery. Provisional, shown only for years that pass the checks.

Plan

Open data

Today FAIMS data sits behind login. The plan is to publish approved snapshots, never live queries, with each country's data owner signing off every release.

  • Planned

    Reference data

    Water bodies, admin areas, landing sites and species lists.

    CSV · JSON · GeoJSON
  • Planned

    Fleet census

    Frame survey counts of fishers, boats and gear by district.

    CSV · JSON
  • Planned

    Catch rates and prices

    Catch per trip, species shares and beach prices by month.

    CSV · JSON
  • Planned

    Estimated catch

    Raised total catch and value by year, with coverage and error.

    CSV · JSON

Need finer data for research? Ask the core team about a data agreement.

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For developers

Public API plan

This website will read its figures from a small read-only API in FAIMS. It serves approved releases only, so a chart here always matches a published, citable version.

Endpoint Returns
GET /api/public/v1/summary Headline counts for the home page
GET /api/public/v1/reference/landing-sites Mapped landing sites as GeoJSON
GET /api/public/v1/reference/regions Simplified region outlines as GeoJSON
GET /api/public/v1/datasets The catalogue, with method notes and releases
GET /api/public/v1/datasets/{id}/data One dataset as JSON or CSV, with release, licence, citation and the evidence behind every row
POST /api/public/v1/data-requests A request for finer data, reviewed by the country that owns it