The ICES Secretariat devotes considerable resources to the maintenance of the five fisheries related Databanks. In addition, a number of software packages are held in the Secretariat for use by ICES Working Groups and some of these are interfaced to the relevant databanks.
The five fisheries databanks are:
| STATLANT 27A (Official Statistics on nominal catches of fish and shellfish) |
| ICES Fisheries Assessment Package (for use by approximately 20 Working Groups for ICES stock assessments. Includes catches in tonnes, fishing effort, catch in number at age and relevant biological data). |
| International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) (results from an international survey conducted each year in the North Sea since 1970 which provides an annual index of abundance by ICES Statistical Rectangle). |
| North Sea databank (contains details of catches and fishing effort originally set up by the EC). |
| North Sea Multispecies databank (contains stomach content data for each of the main predatory fish species in the North Sea. For use in multispecies models). |