Description of Commercial inland fishery statistics

Produced by: Natural Resources Institute Finland
Home page of the statistics: Commercial inland fishery
Subject matter: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Yes      
European Statistical System (ESS): No

Description

The statistics of commercial inland fishery contains information about the commercial inland fishery catch, the value of the catch and the number of commercial fishers.

Information content

The amount and value of the commercial inland fishery catch is presented by fish species and region. The amount of catch is also presented by month and gear. The information is based on information provided by commercial fishers. As a result of the new Fishing Act (379/2015), commercial fishers are obligated to maintain a journal of fishing activities, apart from those taking place in sea areas, and to report the catches that they have caught and that have been caught in their name at least once per calendar year. This obligation also applies to crayfish and the European river lamprey and also to the amount of roe caught in accordance with the act on food and natural resource statistics (562/2014).

Classification used

The statistics covers commercial inland fishery. In the statistics, the amount and value of catch are presented using the regional distribution of fishery units applied by the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) until the end of 2014. Catches are also presented on a monthly basis. In addition to other catches, the statistics also presents removal fishing (biomanipulation) separately.

Data collection methods and source

The statistics of commercial inland fishery is a census survey. Its frame population for 2016 and 2017 is the status at the end of 2017 in the register of commercial fishers maintained by the ELY Centre for Southwest Finland. A commercial fisher can be a natural person (person or one-man business) or a legal person (limited liability company, limited partnership or general partnership). Fishers must provide the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) with an electronic or paper fishing journal by the end of February following the statistics year. The responses will be adjusted using statistical methods so that the estimate covers the entire frame population.

Update frequency

The statistics is published every year. In 1998–2014, it was published every other year.

Preparation and publication schedule

An estimate of the previous year’s catch is published at the end of October.

Time series

Information is available starting from the 1960s.