Aquaculture Library Research Guide: Statistics/Data Sources

(National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA) The Hawaii Annual Statistics Bulletin is a historical five-year series for all major crops, livestock, and related data. It also includes county data. All of the files are available in pdf format. Aquaculture reports are listed under livestock. Access to reports from 2007 to present.

(National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA) Provides access to a variety of statistics and reports on farms, crops, and livestock in Hawaii. Prepared in cooperation with the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture. Some reports in the On-line Reports Archive are available back to 1996.

(FAO, UN) Includes FAO yearbooks and summary tables, download links for multiple versions of the FishStat software, and more.

(FAO, UN) A good resource for definitions, concepts, and statistical standards used by international agencies. Section J contains succinct definitions of Aquaculture and culture environments.

(Hawaii Department of Aquatic Resources) CDAR collects various data from fishing reports, marine life and habitat surveys (fish counts/transects, etc.), creel surveys, port surveys, fish market sampling, and other scientific surveys. The commercial fishing reports, the oldest dataset, date to 1948.