FAO Major Fishing Areas
The main fishing areas of the FAO ( English FAO Major Fishing Areas ) are the result of the fact that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has divided the oceanic areas of the world into different fishing areas. On the basis of this classification, meaningful statistical data can be recorded and the fisheries can be managed (e.g. catch quotas set), also with defined legal responsibilities.
The boundaries of the areas have been set arbitrarily to safeguard the above-mentioned purposes and in consultation with national fisheries authorities.
The areas
The defined areas are numbered:
- Area 18: the Arctic Ocean
- Area 21: the northwestern part of the Atlantic
- Area 27: the northeastern part of the Atlantic
- Area 31: the western Atlantic Ocean
- Area 34: the central east Atlantic
- Area 37: the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
- Area 41: the Southwest Atlantic
- Area 47: the South East Atlantic
- Area 48: the Antarctic part of the Atlantic
- Area 51: the western Indian Ocean
- Area 57: the Eastern Indian Ocean
- Area 58: the southern and Antarctic parts of the Indian Ocean
- Area 61: the Northwest Pacific
- Area 67: the Northeast Pacific
- Area 71: the western central Pacific
- Area 77: the eastern central Pacific
- Area 81: the Southwest Pacific
- Area 87: the Southeast Pacific
- Area 88: the Antarctic part of the Pacific
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- ↑ FAO : FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture - Geographic profiles ( EN ) Accessed October 6, 2019.
- ↑ FAO : FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture - FI Fact sheet ( EN ) Accessed October 6, 2019.