Fishing provides the world with an important component of its food supply, but it also negatively impacts the biodiversity of marine and freshwater ecosystems, especially when industrial fishing is involved. To mitigate these impacts, civil society needs access to fisheries data (i.e., catches and catch-derived indicators of these impacts). Such data, however, must be more comprehensive than the official fisheries statistics supplied to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) by its member countries, which shape public policy in spite of their deficiencies, notably underestimating small-scale fisheries. This article documents the creation, based on the geographically coarse FAO data, of a database and website ( https://www.seaaroundus.org ) that provides free reconstructed (i.e., corrected) catch data by ecosystem, country, species, gear type, commercial value, etc., to any interested person, along with catch-derived indicators from 1950 to the near present for the entire world.

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全球渔业科学记录了人类对海洋的影响：我们周围的海洋为二十一世纪的民间社会服务

渔业为世界提供了食物供应的重要组成部分，但它也对海洋和淡水生态系统的生物多样性产生了负面影响，特别是在涉及工业捕捞时。为了减轻这些影响，民间社会需要获取渔业数据（即渔获量和这些影响的渔获量指标）。然而，此类数据必须比联合国粮食及农业组织（粮农组织）成员国提供的官方渔业统计数据更全面，后者尽管存在缺陷，但仍影响着公共政策，特别是低估了小规模渔业。本文记录了基于粮农组织地理粗略数据创建的数据库和网站 ( https://www.seaaroundus.org )，该数据库和网站提供按生态系统、国家、物种、渔具类型免费重建（即校正）的渔获量数据、商业价值等，以及从 1950 年到现在全世界的捕捞指标。