Website: Statistics: Fisheries

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the EU's instrument for the management of fishing and aquaculture. The CFP manages fisheries for the benefit of both fishing communities and consumers, and for the protection of resources.

Fish stocks are regarded as a common resource, to be managed collectively. This is because:
- Fish are a natural, mobile and renewable resource
- Fish cannot be owned until they have been caught
- The actions of one group of fishermen impacts on other groups.

Fishery statistics are derived from official national sources either directly by Eurostat for the EEA member countries. The data are collected using internationally agreed concepts and definitions developed by the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics, comprising Eurostat and several other international organisations with responsibilities in fishery statistics.

The domain "Fisheries" contains data on:
- catches by fishing region
- aquaculture production
- total production
- landings in EEA ports
- trade in fishery products
- the EEA fishing fleet.