European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

The Data Collection Multi-Annual Programme (DC-MAP) provides a common framework for the EU community to collect, manage, and share data within the fisheries sector. The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund 6.2.3 DC-MAP project, part-co-financed by the EU, started in January 2020 and ran until December 2021.

The collection of fisheries data under the DC-MAP ensures the implementation and support of the European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The scope of the CFP is the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources from the environmental, economic, and social perspectives.

The data collection aimed to provide reliable information on the state of fish stocks, provide advice on the sustainable management of fish stocks upon which the industry depends and ensure the conservation and management of the marine environment.

Malta collected its data on the basis of its National Work Plans. Through this operation, fisheries data were collected in a number of ways: data was compiled from commercial fisheries (full-time and part-time professional fishing vessels) via logbooks, sales notes; effort and fleet characteristics; and through socio-economic surveys of the...