Commercial fishing areas – delimited area in which fishing takes place using active equipment such as seines, purse seines and shrimp trawls, or passive equipment such as nets and lines. The information recorded is based on interviews with fishermen.

Foreign vessels 2011-2016. This theme shows fishing activity based on data from satellite tracking and catch data. These datasources are combined and irrelevant data is removed before the line density plots are generated. All fishing vessels over 15m length are tracked by the Norwegian Fisheries Monitoring Centre. Coverage: Norwegian vessels are tracked everywhere, whereas foreign vessels are only tracked in the Norwegian Economic Zone, Jan Mayen zone and Svalbard Fisheries Protection zone (with the exceptions of RUS, GBR and IRL who do not recognise this zone)

Statistical areas from ICES and Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries used in catch reporting. There are two levels- primary areas and locations.

These themes show fishing activity based on data from satellite tracking and catch reporting. Tracking data is linked with information from catch reporting in order to filter out periods involving activities other than fishing, before generating a line density plot. Norwegian fishing vessels are shown per quarter. All fishing vessels of more than 15 metres transmit position reports to the Norwegian Fisheries Monitoring Centre (FMC). The boundary is 12 metres outside 4 nautical miles in the Skagerrak. The normal tracking frequency is one position report per hour. The coverage level declines north of a latitude of N76˚ depending on the type of tracking equipment. Norwegian vessels report independent area, while foreign vessels only transmit data when they are in our waters: The Norwegian Economic Zone, the fishing zone around Jan Mayen and the fish conservation zone at Svalbard. We have no data from Russian, British or Irish vessels in the fish conservation zone. Foreign fishing vessels are shown per year. Foreign vessels only transmit data when they are in our waters: The Norwegian Economic Zone, the fishing zone around Jan Mayen and the fish conservation zone at Svalbard. We have no data from Russian, British or Irish vessels in the fish conservation zone (outside the territorial boundary). Like Norwegian vessels, EU vessels also report their electronic catch logs every day, while Russian vessels only report catches per week.

This dataset shows areas where engaging in fishing nearby is prohibited, as adopted in the Norwegian Regulation on amendment to fishing operations at sea, section 66, second paragraph. The purpose is to protect coral reefs.

The Aquaculture locations dataset shows the approximate centre point of all aquaculture locations in Norway. It includes information on the licence status, as well as fish species, production type, capacity and purpose. Boundaries representing sea areas where permits have been granted to pursue aquaculture activities are also shown. The areas are drawn on the basis of the registered outer points of the locations recorded in the Aquaculture register of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. Fish and shellfish are not always to be found at the locations: this can be checked by looking at Biomass – yes/no. Biomass – yes/no is based on reports showing information from the locations on the last day of every month. There is also information on discontinued sites. Permission has been given for aquaculture activities at the locations at one time, but this permission has since been withdrawn and aquaculture activity is currently not approved. This is indicated with the status "TT" (withdrawn) and the date the license status changed.

Delimited fields where kelp can be harvested with trawls every 5 years, with the exception of closed areas within the fields (in accordance with the Norwegian Regulation on harvesting kelp)

In accordance with the Norwegian Regulation: https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017-12-18-2120 This datasett is produced following the regulations for catching red king crabs in the quota-regulated area east of 26°E in 2018

This dataset shows areas where engaging in fishing nearby is prohibited, as adopted in the Norwegian Regulation on amendment to fishing operations at sea, section 66, second paragraph. The purpose is to protect coral reefs.

Norwegian vessels 2011-2106 shows fishing activity based on data from satellite tracking and catch data. These datasources are combined to take irrelevant data before the line density plots are generated. All fishing vessels over 15m length are tracked by the Norwegian Fisheries Monitoring Centre. Data is grouped by year and shown by quarter (K1=first quarter)