Fisheries Sensitivity Mapping and Displacement Modelling (FISMADIM) - Fishing effort data product - 2012 to 2021

These data are a gridded data product delineating annual estimated fishing effort from vessel data available Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) only as well as joined VMS and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data interpolated to have vessel positional data for every 20 minutes for vessels active in the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) separately generated for eight gear groups. Although the data mainly contains information on vessels with length above 12m, fishing effort of some parts of the inshore fleet and international vessels are included where data were available. Grid cells in which 3 or less vessels were fishing are suppressed to acknowledge commercial sensitivity of the information.