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Curated external data for fisheries, marine ecology, oceanography, climate, spatial analysis, and teaching.

Fisheries Biodiversity Ocean Climate Geospatial Peru Licensed

Fisheries and stock assessment

  • FAO FishStatJ. FAO fisheries and aquaculture statistical time series covering production, capture, trade and related sector statistics. Useful for: Global catch and production trends, comparative fisheries analyses, teaching with official fisheries statistics. ProviderFAOAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatFishStatJ

  • Global Fishing Watch. AIS- and partnership-derived vessel identity, fishing activity, events and related ocean-transparency products. Useful for: Fishing effort, fleet dynamics, vessel behaviour, spatial pressure indicators and reproducible vessel analyses. ProviderGFWAccessRegisterCoverageGlobalFormatAPI

  • ICES DATRAS. Trawl-survey data products and raw survey data contributed by national programmes and coordinated through ICES. Useful for: Survey indices, length and age compositions, spatial survey analysis, calibration and teaching. ProviderICESAccessOpenCoverageICESFormatData

  • RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database. Compilation of stock-assessment outputs for commercially exploited marine populations, with archived releases on Zenodo. Useful for: Cross-stock comparisons, biomass and fishing-mortality trajectories, stock-status research and teaching. ProviderRAM LegacyAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatExcel

  • Sea Around Us. Reconstructed fisheries catch data and contextual fisheries indicators organized by taxa, fishing country and marine regions. Useful for: Historical catch reconstruction, spatial fisheries comparisons, teaching on reported versus reconstructed catches. ProviderUBCAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatCSV

Biodiversity and ecological modelling

  • Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). Integrated marine species occurrence and event records harvested from thousands of datasets. Useful for: Species-distribution modelling, biodiversity mapping, occurrence QC, biogeography and ecological baselines. ProviderOBISAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatGeoParquet

  • Bio-ORACLE. Standardized physical, chemical, biological and topographic marine layers designed for ecological modelling. Useful for: Species-distribution models, ecological niche modelling, environmental screening and biodiversity projections. ProviderVLIZAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatERDDAP

  • GBIF. Global biodiversity occurrence records and taxonomic information from participating institutions and publishers. Useful for: Species occurrences, ecological niche modelling, distribution validation and biodiversity synthesis. ProviderGBIFAccessRegisterCoverageGlobalFormatAPI

Oceanographic and in-situ observations

  • Argo GDAC. Official Argo profile, trajectory, metadata and technical files from the Global Data Assembly Centres. Useful for: Vertical temperature and salinity structure, water masses, mixed-layer studies and validation of models or satellites. ProviderArgoAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • Copernicus Marine Service. Physical, biogeochemical, wave, sea-ice and ocean-monitoring products from observations and models. Useful for: SST, salinity, currents, oxygen, chlorophyll, productivity, sea level, habitat modelling and ocean diagnostics. ProviderCopernicusAccessRegisterCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP. Consistent remote access to gridded and tabular oceanographic datasets from NOAA CoastWatch nodes. Useful for: SST, ocean colour, salinity, winds and reproducible R/Python subsetting without downloading full archives. ProviderNOAA CWAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • World Ocean Atlas. Objectively analysed climatological fields for temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients and related ocean variables. Useful for: Environmental baselines, climatologies, anomaly calculation, model validation and teaching. ProviderNOAA NCEIAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • World Ocean Database. Large, uniformly formatted and quality-controlled collection of ocean profile observations from many platforms and programmes. Useful for: Historical hydrography, CTD/XBT profiles, long-term change, validation and climatology construction. ProviderNOAA NCEIAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

Satellite, reanalysis and climate

  • ERA5. Global atmospheric reanalysis with hourly surface, atmospheric and wave variables. Useful for: Wind, heat fluxes, pressure, waves, precipitation, atmospheric forcing and climate covariates. ProviderECMWF/C3SAccessRegisterCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • NOAA OISST v2.1. Daily blended sea-surface temperature Climate Data Record combining satellite and in-situ observations on a complete grid. Useful for: SST anomalies, marine heatwaves, ENSO diagnostics, habitat studies and long-term environmental covariates. ProviderNOAA NCEIAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • HadISST1. Long-term monthly sea-surface temperature and sea-ice concentration analysis. Useful for: Historical SST variability, climate indices, regime analysis and century-scale environmental context. ProviderMet OfficeAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • NASA Ocean Biology DAAC (Ocean Color). Multi-mission archive of ocean colour, sea-surface temperature, sea-surface salinity and supporting in-situ SeaBASS observations. Useful for: Chlorophyll, optical properties, productivity proxies, pelagic habitat, fronts and satellite validation. ProviderNASA OB.DAACAccessRegisterCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • NOAA PSL Climate Indices. Collection of atmospheric and ocean climate indices including Niño 1+2, Niño 3.4, ONI, MEI and PDO-related series. Useful for: ENSO and climate-regime classification, environmental context, teaching and covariate construction. ProviderNOAA PSLAccessOpenCoverageICESFormatText

Bathymetry and marine geospatial

  • GEBCO Grid. Global gridded terrain model for ocean and land with annual releases and source-type information. Useful for: Bathymetry, slope, spatial modelling covariates, terrain context and oceanographic map backgrounds. ProviderGEBCOAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatNetCDF

  • Marine Regions. Authoritative downloadable marine geographic boundaries including EEZs, territorial seas, high seas and related marine regions. Useful for: EEZ assignment, marine-region overlays, spatial stratification and fisheries-area mapping. ProviderVLIZAccessOpenCoverageGlobalFormatGIS

Peru fisheries and coastal observations

  • IMARPE coastal sea-surface temperature. Daily sea-surface temperature observations measured at IMARPE coastal laboratory stations. Useful for: Coastal thermal variability, climatologies, anomaly studies, teaching and validation of gridded SST products. ProviderIMARPEAccessOpenCoveragePeruFormatCSV

  • Peruvian anchoveta landings (anonymized). Anonymized landing records for anchoveta for indirect human consumption, with port, vessel-regime and landing information. Useful for: Landing dynamics, port-level analyses, fishery timing, teaching and reproducible Peruvian anchoveta examples. ProviderPRODUCEAccessOpenCoveragePeruFormatCSV

  • PRODUCE Open Data catalogue. National open-data catalogue containing fisheries, aquaculture, landing infrastructure, vessel and production datasets from PRODUCE and related agencies. Useful for: Peruvian fisheries context, teaching datasets, public-sector indicators and reproducible national case studies. ProviderPRODUCEAccessOpenCoveragePeruFormatCSV

  • IMARPE coastal sea-surface salinity. Daily sea-surface salinity observations measured at IMARPE coastal laboratory stations. Useful for: Coastal salinity variability, freshwater influence, climatologies and validation of ocean products. ProviderIMARPEAccessOpenCoveragePeruFormatCSV

  • Peruvian fishing landing infrastructure. Georeferenced catalogue of fishing ports, artisanal landing sites, coves and related hydrobiological landing infrastructure. Useful for: Port networks, landing-site accessibility, spatial fisheries context and teaching. ProviderFONDEPESAccessOpenCoveragePeruFormatCSV

  • Peruvian fishing-vessel satellite transmissions. Anonymized satellite transmissions processed by Peru's fishing-vessel monitoring system (SISESAT). Useful for: Fleet movement, spatial fishing pressure, vessel behaviour exercises and comparison with AIS-derived products. ProviderPRODUCEAccessOpenCoveragePeruFormatCSV

Licensed and commercial sources

  • MarineTraffic / Kpler AIS Data API. Commercial AIS and maritime-intelligence services providing vessel positions, voyages and related vessel information. Useful for: High-frequency vessel tracking, maritime traffic analysis and projects requiring commercial AIS coverage or service levels. ProviderMarineTrafficAccessLicensedCoverageGlobalFormatAPI

  • Planet Education & Research imagery. PlanetScope and RapidEye imagery available through education and research programmes, with additional paid research tiers. Useful for: High-resolution coastal mapping, habitat change, shoreline analysis, remote-sensing coursework and research. ProviderPlanetAccessLicensedCoverageGlobalFormatAPI

  • Spire Maritime AIS. Commercial satellite and terrestrial AIS products with current and historical vessel position and voyage data. Useful for: Global vessel tracking, historical tracks, maritime analytics and projects requiring commercial satellite AIS. ProviderSpireAccessLicensedCoverageGlobalFormatAPI

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