One hundred years of catch statistics for the Northeast Atlantic

ICES has published fishery statistics since 1904, beginning with data for 1903, and has, for many years, presented landings data in electronic form in the Eurostat/ICES database covering the period 1973 to the present. This electronic database has been extended to include all landings data available from volumes of ICES Bulletin Statistique des Pêches Maritimes covering the period 1903 – 1972. The data for 1950 and later are available for downloading from the Eurostat and ICES websites, while the data for 1903 – 1949 are available only on the ICES website. The data format for 1950-2008 is in the form of annual time‐series by species and area, while the 1903 – 1949 data are presented as Excel books (one for each country), with one spreadsheet for each year. The data are available from the ICES website (http://www.ices.dk/fish/statlant.asp). The Excel files for 1903 – 1949 are available as zipped versions of the individual Microsoft Excel country files, while the data for 1950 to the present on the Eurostat website (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/search_database) are presented in Eurostat’s eDAMIS

system.