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Oceans Fishing activity
Limitations of the fishing activity indicator
The fishing activity indicator does not measure:
- the environmental effects of fishing and trawling on marine ecosystems
- the effects from fishing activities on fish species that are not within the Quota Management System.
Only seabed trawling and the amount of trawl effort is reported. No information is available at the national level on the impact of the trawl on the sea floor environment. Also most small vessels do not have to complete Trawl Catch Effort Processing Returns, so an estimated 3.5 million dredges and trawls are not reported.
This information has come from the latest environmental report card on marine areas with legal protection.
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Last updated: December 2008
