environment: Environments

In fishstat: Global Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics

Environments

Description

Aquatic environments for aquaculture, defined by FAO (2025).

Usage

environment

Format

Data frame containing two columns:

environment	environment code
environment_name	environment name

Details

This data frame contains the full set of 4 data records from the FishStat Production Environment data table. Column names have been simplified to facilitate quick exploration and plotting in R.

Source

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

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

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

environment

# Aquaculture production by environment in 2023, in million tonnes
x <- merge(aquaculture, environment)
x <- aggregate(value~environment_name, x, sum, subset=year==2023)
transform(x, value=round(value/1e6))

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