NAFO Annual Fisheries Statistics Databases
NAFO Members send their annual compilation of information on national catches and landings to the NAFO Secretariat. These data are used for statistical purpose within NAFO (and elsewhere). Complete statistical data have been published in Statistical Bulletin since 1951. The STATLANT 21 data being presented for 2000-2002 are provisional and are updated as new information becomes available.

21A database: contains information on annual catches by species, subareas, country, and year. This database can be accessed in 3 ways:

  • for a quick and easy examination of catch trends of the most common fishery species, the data can be viewed with an interactive Excel application (Pivot table and chart) facilitated by the Secretariat
  • the full database can be downloaded as a comma-delimited text file to be inserted in your own applications (e.g. Excel, Access)
  • the full database can be viewed with the FAO FishStatPlus application

21B database: contains monthly catch and effort information by year, country, gear, tonnage, main species, Divison, and year. As it is very large, the Secretariat makes it available on the web as a number of comma-delimited text files containing one decade each.

* Users of 21 data should note that discrepencies between 21A and 21B may occur in total catch of species for the years 1994-onward. Total catch of USA by species is included in the 21A but not in the 21B data.
Instructions for reporting Statistics on Nominal Catches (pdf files) 
21A
Excel Spreadsheets for submitting statistics
21A data
Secretariat's interactive Excel table FAO FishStatPlus files
FishStatPlus (version 2.3)
View catch statistics of the most common fishery species in an inter-active Spreadsheet Application (chart and table) (based on NAFO STATLANT 21A data)
Text files

Download a zipped comma-delimited text file to insert the NAFO 21A data into your application
NAFO 21A data for 1960-1999   (313 kb - uploaded 24 Aug 05)
NAFO 21A data for 2000-present   (58 kb - uploaded 2 Sep 09)
21B data
21B files in comma-delimited txt format (zipped)
NAFO 21B data for 2000-2009
(454 kb - uploaded 2 Sep 09)