Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea

Catch ( t x 10 6 )
18 Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present, Rossing, Booth and Zeller
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ICES landings
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1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Year
Figure 2. Officially reported fisheries landings as presented by
ICES (solid line) with adjustments (dashed line) for the Baltic
Sea Large Marine Ecosystem for the period 1950-2007.
Table 10. Landings, and the
proportion of total landings
reported (by country) in the Baltic
Sea (ICES subdivisions 22-32) on
behalf of 9 coastal countries.
Source: ICES (2009).
Reported
Country landings (%)
(t)
USSR 8,603,314 20.8%
Poland 7,075,563 17.1%
Sweden 6,786,623 16.4%
Denmark 6,766,169 16.4%
Finland 4,468,766 10.8%
Germany 4,221,739 10.2%
Latvia 1,211,724 2.9%
Estonia 1,165,996 2.8%
Russia 739,288 1.8%
Lithuania 206,850 0.5%
Non-Baltic 63,917 0.2%
Subsequently, reported landings reached an all-time peak of approximately 1.1 million t∙year -1 in 1997,
before declining to approximately 800,000 t∙year -1 in 2007 (Figure 2).
Reported landings by decade and major taxa indicated that the top three species reported by ICES over the
entire period (1950-2007) were herring, cod, and sprat, which totaled approximately 43% (17,600,000 t),
24% (9,700,000 t) and 23% (9,400,000 t) of total reported landings), respectively (Table 9).
According to officially reported data, between 1950 and 2007, the former USSR was the top fishing
country representing 21% of total ICES statistics. Poland, Denmark and Sweden were the other top fishing
countries in the Baltic Sea, each having reported approximately 17%, 16% and 16% of the total ICES
landings statistics respectively (Table 10). Finland‘s and Germany‘s total reported landings (1950-2007)
were comparable and represented each approximately 11% and 10% of the Baltic-wide reported landings to
ICES (Table 10). Independent Latvia, Estonia and Russia, (i.e. excluding former USSR) each represented
2-3% of the total reported landings, while Independent Lithuania reported less than 1% of the total
landings in the ICES landings statistics (1950-2007; Table 10).
Adjustments to reported landings
Adjustments to ICES reported landings added a net positive tonnage of over 1.2 million t between 1950
and 2007 (Table 11), the majority of which was applied to the 1950s (Figure 2). This added approximately
3% to landings reported to ICES between 1950 and 2007 (Figure 2). In the 1950s alone, an estimated 1.3
million t were added to ICES landings statistics, which added 42.9% to reported landings during that time
Table 11. Adjustments (t) added to reported landings from the ICES landings
statistics database for each of the taxonomic entities considered. See text for sources.
Common
name
1950-
1959
1960-
1969
1970-
1979
1980-
1989
1990-
1999
2000-
2007
Cod 637,767 88,087 35,715 15,496 18,486 68
Herring 448,879 4,343 -15,572 15,458 -216,395 -65,171
Sprat 156,937 25,114 45,050 2,278 81,309 -27,265
Flatfishes 52,672 9,560 -7,665 1,493 4,191 -183
Salmon 2,839 -497 -406 908 581 -188
'Others' 46,315 -25,365 -25,437 400 -17,728 -66,282
period (Table 11). Between
1950 and 1959, the majority
of adjustments added were
those of cod (47%), followed
by herring (33%) and sprat
(12%; Table 11). In the
1970s, an estimated 31,685
t were added to officially
reported landings (the
majority were herring, then
cod, then sprat) and
beginning in the 1990s, adjustments made to reported landings for the Baltic Sea were negative due to
over reporting of herring and sprat (Table 11). In the 1990s, negative adjustments totaled an estimated -
130,403 t and in the 2000s, an estimated -159,021 t (Table 11). The majority of these negative landings
were of herring and ‗others‘ (Table 11). Between 2000 and 2007, positive adjustments were made only to