Fish catch
Ocean fish catch by species; the Baltic Sea fish catch by economic activity and species; inland waters fish catch by waterbody and species | |
FAO international statistical classification of fishing areas; Estonian division of fishing areas | |
The data cover marine and freshwater fishing. The Classification of Economic Activities in Estonia (EMTAK) based on NACE Rev. 2: 0311 Marine fishing; 0312 Freshwater fishing | |
Baltic Sea fishing – fishing on the open sea and/or in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea Commercial fishing – fishing or collecting agar-agar with commercial fishing gear (longlines, entangling nets, trap nets, seine nets, trawls) Fisherman’s fishing authorisation – the right to fish by commercial fishing gear at sea to the 20 m isobath or on Lake Peipus, Lake Lämmijärv and Lake Pskov or on another waterbody belonging to the state Fishing area – a defined and registered area at sea to the 20 m isobath or on another waterbody, which is established for rational division, use and protection of fishery resources and fishing grounds or for fish farming in a natural waterbody. Depending on the establisher, a fishing area can be: - national fishing area; - local government fishing area; - private fishing area. Fishing with restricted fishing rights – fishing with restricted authorisation, which gives the right to fish with limited fishing gear Inland waters fishing – fishing on inland waters Ocean fishing – fishing at a distance from the coast, on the open ocean or in the economic zones of other countries Restricted fishing authorisation – the right to fish with a limited number of commercial fishing instruments (with one to three entangling nets or with one fyke net of up to 1 meter high or with one bottom line of up to 250 hooks) at sea to the 20 m isobath, or on Lake Peipus, Lake Lämmijärv and Lake Pskov on an area of water up to 1 kilometre from the shore, or on Lake Võrtsjärv | |
Legal person, natural person | |
Natural and legal persons engaged in fishing FRAME Not applicable | |
Estonia as a whole | |
1992–… | |
Not applicable |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91 (Text with EEA relevance) Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (recast) Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast) Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast) OTHER LEGAL ACTS Not available OTHER AGREEMENTS Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month). | |
All users have been granted equal access to official statistics: dissemination dates of official statistics are announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) is provided access to official statistics before other users. Official statistics are first published in the statistical database. If there is also a news release, it is published simultaneously with data in the statistical database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar. |
Not published | |
Not published | |
Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area Economy/Fishing in the following tables: KA10: Ocean fish catch by species, KA20: The Baltic Sea fish catch by species, KA30: Inland waters fish catch by waterbody and species. Discontinued dataset in the subject area Discontinued datasets / Economy. Archive / Fishing. Archive: KA35: Nominal fish catch by fishing region and species (quarters) (2003-2011). | |
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Fishing data are also available on Statistics Estonia's website in the section fishing. The data serve as input for statistical activities 10001 “Environmental trends” and 10601 “Material flow accounts”. The data on fishing and landings of fish catches are transferred to Eurostat via the data transmission program EDAMIS. The catch data for fishing area C21_A for a given reference year are submitted to Eurostat by 30 May of the following year at the latest. Eurostat has requested that Estonia share its fishing data with the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), and the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture have agreed to this. The catch data for fishing areas C27_A and C34TO51_A for a given reference year are submitted by 30 June of the following year at the latest. The data on landings of fish for a given reference year are submitted by 30 June of the following year at the latest. The catch efficiency data for fishing area C21_A for a given reference year are submitted by 30 August of the following year. The total catch value is submitted to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). | |
The methodology complies with the requirements stipulated by the European Parliament and the Council Regulations (EC) No 216/2009, 217/2009 and 218/2009. Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (recast) Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast) Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast) The methodology applied in Estonia is described in quality reports submitted to Eurostat. | |
Quality report submitted to Eurostat in accordance with data submission under Regulations (EC) 216/2009, 217/2009, 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council |
To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the European Statistics Code of Practice and the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (ESS QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the EFQM Excellence Model and the requirements in section 7 “Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act. | |
Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions. |
Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture | |
Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section User surveys. | |
The data are complete and meet the content requirements set in the fishing and landing regulations. |
The data are geographically comparable due to the use of an international methodology. | |
The data are comparable over time (1992–…). The methodology and basic principles, definitions and classifications have remained the same over time. | |
Not available | |
The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent. |
The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described on Statistics Estonia's website in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics. | |
There are no planned revisions. The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available. |
SURVEY DATA Not used ADMINISTRATIVE DATA The following data are received from the Agricultural and Food Board: fish catch from the oceans, the Baltic Sea and inland waters by species and fishing area (commercial fishing); fish catch from the Baltic Sea and inland waters by fishing area. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Not used | |
Annual | |
Legal and natural persons submit data on commercial fishing to the Agriculture and Food Board. Statistics Estonia receives the fishing data from the Agriculture and Food Board once a year by email on the basis of an agreement. | |
Arithmetic and qualitative checks are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods. Fishing data are validated and quality assured by the Agriculture and Food Board. If significant discrepancies are found when comparing the results of the reference year with those of previous periods, the owner of the administrative data will be contacted. | |
The data collected by the Agriculture and Food Board are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators (data are published with some subdivisions and as aggregates). The aggregates are - ocean fish catch by species; - Baltic Sea fish catch by species (separately for coastal catch and trawling vessels catch and for the Baltic Sea fish catch total); - inland waters fish catch by waterbody and species (separately for Lake Peipus, Lake Võrtsjärv and other inland waterbodies and for inland waterbodies total). | |
Not applicable |