Fishery Landings Survey

Survey Information "Discontinued"

Survey Name:

Fishery Landings Survey

Business Area:

Prices Section, Agriculture Division.

Survey Purpose:

To compile data on Fish landings, catch and production (quantity/production/ value) and consumption category

Legislative Basis:

Informal Agreement. However the sea fisheries division in the Department of the Communications, Marine and Natural Resources are responsible for the transmission of landings figures to the EU statistical office, Eurostat, under the terms of Council Regulation No. 2104/93

Periodicity:

Annual

Target Population:

Fishing ports

Sampling Frame:

Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources listing of fishing ports

Survey Size:

The information collected is from all ports at which landings are recorded

Principal Variables Collected:

Species of and species class, landings by port/consumption category/month/average live weight per tonne, value by main species.

Principal External Users:

Government, Eurostat.

Contact Points

Business Area Specialists:

Margaret Power

The business specialists above can be contacted by e-mail using their firstname.lastname@cso.ie