A new and refreshed website of the Coordinating Working Party on Fisheries Statistics (CWP) is alive. The updated site includes changes to navigation, a refreshed look&feel, a section with highlights and relevant upcoming meetings, and importantly the new version of the CWP Handbook.

The primary goal of this upgrade was to provide the revised CWP handbook contents in a more dynamic and structured way so to allow for a more intuitive and easy navigation across sections, while adapting the contents of the old CWP website to the new FAO institutional image.

With this revamping the users will get more from a quick read through contents that we plan to be periodically updated so as the website will become a reference to all those belonging or related to the fisheries statistician's community.

For any questions, suggestions, feedback or comments, please E-mail us at CWP-secretariat@fao.org.

The FAO Yearbook of fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2015 has been just officially released. This edition contains the most recent global statistics on capture fishery production, aquaculture production, commodities production and trade, apparent fish consumption derived from food balance sheets as well as statistics on fleets and employment of major producing countries. It is structured into a booklet (containing summary tables, relevant general notes, concepts and classifications, a pull-out map of FAO major fishing areas as well as a brief overview of major trends and issues relating to the individual statistical sets) and a CD-ROM presenting the full yearbook package with all the key information and the complete set of statistical tables.

The Yearbook is one of the tools through which users can access the different statistics collated and disseminated by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO. These include:

1. FishStatJ - Software for fishery statistical time series offering experts and scientists a stand-alone application for complex and sophisticated data exploration and extraction.
2. Online Query Panels enabling users to extract customized information and reports