| Methodological explanations |
Landings – quantities of fishery products landed on Polish territory by Community and EFTA fishing vessels. Data are collected regardless of the fleet's registration location, pursuant to Regulation (EC) No. 1921/2006.
Seaport – an economic facility located at the interface between land and sea, appropriately equipped technically, technologically, and organizationally to handle maritime trade, as well as to handle the maritime and land transport means involved in their transportation.
Marine fish – a group encompassing fish species caught in marine waters, including the Baltic Sea and its bays, regardless of their biological origin, including:
• freshwater fish – species that spend their entire lives in freshwater, also caught in the Baltic Sea and its bays (the Vistula Lagoon, Szczecin Lagoon); this group includes: gobies, vimba, tusks, ruffs, Siberian sturgeons, crucian carps, carps, silver breams, breams, tenches, burbots, perches, roaches, pikes, pike-perches, catfish, smelts, pikes, and eelpouts,
• diadromous fish – species that change habitat between marine and inland waters during their lifespan; This group includes: salmon, rainbow trout, whitefish, sea trout, and eels,
• other marine fish – other species of typical marine fish; this group includes, among others: atuni, barracuda, sandeel, dentex, blue ling, motelfish, black scabbardfish, whiting, talismans, tuna, catfish, and yellowtail.
Invertebrates – this group includes mollusks (including squid and members of the family Sawfish) and crustaceans (crabs, shrimp). |
