Fisheries Inspection in Portuguese Waters from 2015 to 2023

Ricardo Moura, Nuno Pessanha Santos, Alexandra Vala, Leonor Mendes, Paula Simões, Miguel de Castro Neto, Victor Lobo

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Abstract

As a coastal state, Portugal must ensure active surveillance over its maritime area, ensuring its proper control and inspection. One of the most critical inspection activities is the fishery inspection. To protect biodiversity, we must ensure that all the ships comply with the existing safety regulations and respect the current fishing quotas. This georeferenced dataset describes the fisheries inspections done in Portuguese waters between 2015 and 2023. Since we are dealing with occurrences that may have originated some legal process to the ship’s owner, we have ensured data anonymization by pre-processing the dataset to maintain its accuracy while guaranteeing no unique identifiers exist. All the pre-processing performed to ensure data consistency and accuracy is described in detail to allow a quick analysis and implementation of new algorithms. The data containing the results of these inspections can be easily analyzed to implement data mining algorithms that can efficiently retrieve more knowledge and, e.g., suggest new areas of actuation or new strategies.
Original languageEnglish
Article number362
Number of pages21
JournalScientific Data
Volume11
Issue number1
Early online date10 Apr 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Apr 2024

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