International trade of fish linking exports and imports

Trade data used in Nash et al. (in press). International marine fisheries trade data for 2015 from Watson, et al. 2017 Marine Policy. This data links fisheries capture data to seafood exports and imports reported by FAO. Flows of fish in the global seafood trade are traced in tonnes by matching commodity groups to taxa and trading partners for seafood from UN's annual Comtrade data (1988–2015). Where no information on trade was available, WTO's primary trading partner data were used. Trade flows are identified according to importing and exporting country. Data also provided for coefficient of variation of tonnage of fish imported by nations from 1976-2015. Please contact Kirsty Nash (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0976-3197) with any questions about the dataset.