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Fish catch per unit of fishing power, England and Wales

Fish catch is measured as the amount of landings – fish brought back to land – of bottom-dwelling fish. This is given per unit of fishing power: the number of fishing
vessels multiplied by the fishing effort per vessel.

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Source: Ruth Thurstan et al. (2010). The effects of 118 years of industrial fishing on UK bottom trawl fisheries. Nature Communications.