Sea Around Us

The Sea Around Us assesses the impact of fisheries on the marine ecosystems of the world, and offers mitigating solutions to a range of stakeholders. We emphasize catch and related time series starting in 1950, and fisheries-related information on every maritime country.

The Sea Around Us was initiated in collaboration with The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1999 to study the impact of fisheries on the marine ecosystems of the world, and to offer mitigating solutions to a range of stakeholders. We do this by providing 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.

We emphasize 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.