Fisheries Information and GIS

Abstract

Forecasting fishing ground is the most important for planned fishing operation. GIS is one of the most powerful tools for the purpose, but has not been applied so much. It is essential for the forecasting to treat multidimensional information of fisheries, such as condition of resources, environment of fishing ground, effect of economy, and others. The forecasting based on GIS always includes other manifold factors: for examples, a fishing ground occurs under a complicated influence between biological factors and physical and chemical environment of sea.