The mobile nature of the fishing activity entails dynamic spatial relations and dependencies between coastal communities and fishing grounds drawn by the movement of fishing vessels. Analysing these spatial relations is essential to allocate the socio-economic impact of the fishing activity into the relevant coastal communities. In addition, such spatial information gives the possibility, on the one hand, to assess the impacts from fisheries on the marine environment and, on the other, to manage competing uses of the sea space between different activities. In this paper, we use AIS data, which is individual vessels’ positioning data, to examine the activity of the EU large-scale fishing fleets, their home ports, high intensity fishing areas (i.e., main fishing grounds), main ports and coastal communities involved.
HOLMES Steven;
NATALE Fabrizio;
GIBIN Maurizio;
GUILLEN GARCIA Jordi;
ALESSANDRINI Alfredo;
VESPE Michele;
OSIO Giacomo Chato;
2020-05-26
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
JRC111522
1932-6203 (online),
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230494,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC111522,
10.1371/journal.pone.0230494 (online),
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