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FAO Major Fishing Areas

Source: R/fishing_area_map.R
fao_areas.Rd

This function lists the FAO major fishing areas for statistical purposes, defined by the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP): the 19 marine areas and the inland waters of each continent. For each area it gives its code, name, ocean, catch in the last year of the data and the link to its official FAO map. With plot = TRUE, a world map of the marine areas labelled with their codes is saved as figures/png/area/fao_major_areas.png.

Usage

fao_areas(
  data = NULL,
  plot = TRUE,
  table = TRUE,
  lang = NULL,
  pptx = fao_setting("pptx"),
  plot_show = fao_setting("plot_show")
)

Arguments

data

FAO catch data as returned by load_fao_data(), used for the catch of the last year. Default is NULL, the latest release (load_fao_data()).

plot

A logical value. If TRUE (default), the world map is saved in figures/png/area/.

table

A logical value. If TRUE (default), the table is saved in tables/.

lang

The language of the map text and names: "en" (English), "zh" (Chinese) or "both" (Chinese and English). Default is NULL, which uses the language set with fao_settings() ("en" unless changed).

pptx

A logical value. If TRUE, the map is also saved as an editable PowerPoint file in figures/pptx/area/. Default is the value set with fao_settings() (FALSE unless changed).

plot_show

A logical value. If TRUE, each chart is also drawn in the plot window (e.g. the Plots pane of RStudio) as it is saved, to look at it at once. Default is FALSE, which can be changed for all functions with fao_settings(plot_show = TRUE). The charts are saved as files (plot = TRUE) either way.

Value

Invisibly, a data frame with one row per area: area_code, name_en, name (in the chosen language), type ("marine" or "inland"), ocean, catch_last_year (tonnes), share_pct (percentage of the world catch of the year, marine and inland) and fao_map (link to the official FAO map). The map is in the attribute "plot".

Details

The official maps are the GIF images of the FAO fishing area maps page (https://www.fao.org/fishery/docs/maps/Default.htm); the package links to them and does not copy them. The world map is drawn from the area boundaries bundled with the package (inst/extdata/FAO_AREAS_CWP.shp, FAO, CC BY 4.0), in the projection and central longitude set with fao_settings(). fishing_area_map() maps one area with its subareas.

References

CWP (Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics). CWP Handbook of Fishery Statistics: Main water areas (FAO major fishing areas). Rome: FAO. https://www.fao.org/cwp-on-fishery-statistics/handbook/general-concepts/main-water-areas/en/

FAO. Fishing area maps. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division [online]. Rome. https://www.fao.org/fishery/docs/maps/Default.htm

FAO (2024). FAO Major Fishing Areas for Statistical Purposes. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division [online]. Licence: CC-BY 4.0. https://www.fao.org/fishery/geonetwork?uuid=ac02a460-da52-11dc-9d70-0017f293bd28

See also

fishing_area_map() for the map of one area and its subareas.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
areas <- fao_areas(lang = "zh")
areas[areas$type == "marine", c("area_code", "name", "catch_last_year")]
} # }