ISIMIP3a reconstructed fishing activity data

This data set provides fishing efforts to be used as input data for ISIMIP3a (www.isimip.org, Frieler et al. 2024). The data describes fishing effort by year, targeted functional group, and fishing gear. Fishing effort estimates were derived from country-level fishing fleet capacity data publicly available, following the method described in Rousseau et al (2019) and methods improvement reported in Rousseau et al. (2024).