Fishery Patterns Mapping Data for Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar

This dataset contains results from the Fishery Patterns Mapping (FPM) survey that was conducted as part of the Heshimu Bahari project, supported by USAID, across the whole Tanzanian coastline, including Zanzibar. The FPM data contains records of individual fishing grounds. Data was collected through a community survey conducted with representatives from every fishing gear across every coastal community in Tanzania. The data was later validated on the ground, harmonized, and processed to prepare maps of fishing effort for the various fishing gears and seasons. A detailed description of the processing method is in the attached technical report. For each fishing ground, metadata was collected, including information on the name of the fishing ground, level of fishing effort per fishing ground, gear and season, observed presence of marine mammals, sharks, rays, and sea turtles, as well as availability of fishers to establish a fishing ground as a temporary or permanent closure. The data is organized in several folders, Kmz folder, containing the individual layers, and the metadata file contains the metadata information associated to each kmz layer Processes layers of fishing effort (netCDF format), containing the aggregate fishing effort per gear and in total as well as the reported presence of ETP species. Effort is calculated for each gear, each season (Kuzi and Kaskazi), both smoothed (*_conv.nc) and raw (*.nc). A folder with the Python scripts we developed to process the data A folder with the report on the methodology and analysis.