DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10605898
title: Adriatic fisheries in Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy)

description: The data presented here have been extracted from the four reports on the fisheries economy published by the Emilia-Romagna Region and available at https://agricoltura.regione.emilia-romagna.it/pesca/temi/pubblicazioni/osservatorio.

The data have been collected manually and standardised in the unit of measurement. Given the purpose of these reports, which is the economic analysis of the fisheries sector and not the ecological analysis of fisheries, the database is fragmentary and/or partially homogeneous in its coverage of the regional territory. However, it represents the information available and allows some trends to be deduced for certain species of fish, molluscs and crustaceans caught. The fragmentary nature of the data highlights the need for a systematic collection of such data for the purpose of analysing the environmental sustainability of fisheries.

 The dataset is provided in two formats:

- Microsoft Excel XLSX file, including 3 sheets (Dataset, Fields and units, Taxonomy)

- CSV files (UTF-8), 3 files corresponding to the 3 sheets of the Excel file

The dataset includes the productions values of 18 taxa in 14 year for the Emilia-Romagna region, for a total of 252 records. The fields are described in Table 1.

All the dataset fields are described in the Excel sheet/CSV file “Fields and units”, while the taxonomic related information for the species commercialized is provided in the Excel sheet/CSV file “Taxonomy”. Information extracted from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS; https://marinespecies.org/) is provided here (see details in Table 2).

Table 1. Fields in te dataset (NA=not available).








Field



Darwin Core term



Unit



Precision



Note





CommonName



organismName



NA



NA



The Italian common name of the commercialized taxon





ScientificName



ScientificName



NA



NA



The combination of genus and first (species) epithet of the scientificName





Family



family



NA



NA



The full scientific name of the family in which the dwc:Taxon is classified





Total production (t) - 1997



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 1997 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 1998



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 1998 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 1999



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 1999 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2000



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2000 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2001



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2001 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2002



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2002 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2003



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2003 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2004



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2004 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2007



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2007 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2008



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2008 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2008



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2009 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2009



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2010 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2011



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2011 for the Emilia-Romagna region





Total production (t) - 2012



organismQuantity



tons



NA



Total production (in tons) for the 2012 for the Emilia-Romagna region






The dataset includes production values (expressed in tons) of 18 taxa belong 5 family: 9 species of Teleostei, 5 species of Cephalopoda, 3 species of Malacostraca, 2 species of Bivalvia and 1 species of Gastropoda.

 Table 2. Provided taxonomic information.








Taxon



the name used in the dataset





ScientificName_accepted



the name accepted according WoRMS





AphiaID



Unique identifier in WoRMS





Kingdom



Taxonomic level





Phylum



Taxonomic level





Class



Taxonomic level





Order



Taxonomic level





Family



Taxonomic level





Genus



Taxonomic level





Species



Taxonomic level






This dataset permitted the analysis of catch trends of the main commercialized taxa in the Emilia-Romagna region. The data can be useful to investigate the species dynamic in the Adriatic Sea especially for the more vulnerable species such as anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) and to improve fishery management measures.