Historical landings for the lagoon of Venice (Italy) between 1945 and 2001

doi:10.14284/292

Historical landings for the lagoon of Venice (Italy) between 1945 and 2001

Citation

National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Italy; Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy; (2017): Historical landings for the lagoon of Venice (Italy) between 1945 and 2001 https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/292 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-04-20.

Description

The dataset was obtained from the original registers of the fish markets of Venice and Chioggia that were available on paper documents from 1945 to 1996, and in electronic spreadsheets from 1997. The data originally included information on landings from aquaculture and sea- and lagoon-fishery merged together.

Additional info

Thus, in order to obtain reliable time series for the lagoon-fishery alone, the raw data were treated with the aim of separating from the total catch the product from aquaculture and landings from sea-fisheries. Moreover, different unofficial sources were used to verify and correct official statistics taking into consideration unreported catch from illegal fishing. Species were reported in the original documents with their vernacular/dialectal names, thus it was necessary to attribute them their scientific name according to personal knowledge and interviews with fishermen and fish sellers. Marketed categories may include one or more species. Multispecies categories usually group taxonomically similar species, i.e. species of the same genus or family. The Mediterranean shore crab (Carcinus aestuarii) was registered into three categories, according to the life stage: ripe females, moulting individuals, and the other specimens. The different stages have different commercial values, with moulting individuals being the most valuable. The European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) was registered in two categories according to the size (juvenile or adult). Overall, landings for 19 market categories were obtained.

Taxonomic Coverages

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Crustacea
rank: subphylum

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Mollusca
rank: phylum

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Pisces
rank: superclass

Geographic Coverages

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

MED, Adriatic, North

MED, Italy, Veneto, Venice Lagoon

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
IT

originator
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Branch office Chioggia

Tomaso Fortibuoni
metadata author
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
IT
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3449-3475

Simone Libralato
administrative point of contact
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
IT
email: slibralato@ogs.trieste.it