The FAO Statistics Team (NFISS) of Fisheries and Aquaculture Division collates world capture and aquaculture production statistics at either the species, genus, family, or higher taxonomic levels in 3,169 statistical categories (2022 data release) referred to as species items. ASFIS list of species includes 13,417 species items selected according to their interest or relation to fisheries and aquaculture. For each species item stored in a record, codes (ISSCAAP group, taxonomic and 3-alpha) and taxonomic information (scientific name, author(s), family, and higher taxonomic classification) are provided. An English name is available for most of the records, and about one third of them have also a French and Spanish name. Information is also provided about the availability of fishery production statistics on the species item in the FAO databases. (from homepage)

Comment

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Prefix

fao.asfis

Alternative Prefixes

asfis

Links

Homepage Repository Request Discussion

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

20560   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System should match this regular expression:
^fao\.asfis:\d+$

Example CURIE

fao.asfis:20560

Contributors

• submitter Damion Dooley   0000-0002-8844-9165   ddooley

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 20560 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.