area: Areas

In fishstat: Global Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics

Areas

Description

Major inland and marine fishing areas, defined by FAO (2025).

Usage

area

Format

Data frame containing five columns:

area	area code
area_name	area name
inlandmarine	inland or marine
faregion	northern, central, or southern (marine fishing areas)
ocean	Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, or Southern Ocean (marine fishing areas)

Details

This data frame contains the full set of 29 data records from the FishStat Water Area Groups data table. Column names have been simplified to facilitate quick exploration and plotting in R.

Source

FAO (2025). Global Production. Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. Rome.

https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/collection/global_production

See Also

aquaculture and capture data are also available in a combined production format.

area, country, environment, measure, source, species, and status are lookup tables.

fishstat-package gives an overview of the package.

Examples

head(area)

# Inland waters and marine areas
area[area$inlandmarine == "Inland waters", c("area", "area_name")]
area[area$inlandmarine == "Marine areas", c("area", "area_name")]

# Check if any area has zero production
nonzero <- unique(production$area[production$value > 0])
print(area[!(area$area %in% nonzero),], row.names=FALSE)

# Check which species groups are recorded in areas 98 and 99
species_98_99 <- unique(production$species[production$area %in% 98:99])
cbind(unique(species$isscaap[species$species %in% species_98_99]))

# Marine fishing areas in northern, central, and southern regions
area$area[area$faregion == "Northern regions"]
area$area[area$faregion == "Central regions"]
area$area[area$faregion == "Southern regions"]

# Examine one area
print.simple.list(area[area$area == 71,])

fishstat documentation built on April 11, 2025, 5:50 p.m.