DATRAS Baltic International Trawl Survey (BITS)

Baltic International Bottom Trawl Survey dataset includes age- and length-based catch per unit effort data for commercial fish species in ICES Baltic sub-divisions.

Data and resources

DATRAS home page

BITS survey details, raw data, and data products can be accessed from here.

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ICES data portal

ICES data portal, where BITS distribution maps can be obtained.

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DATRAS data download page

Direct link to download BITS data products

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DATRAS Web Services

Explore web services that can be applied for BITS data

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Additional information

Temporal extent	1991-01-01 – ongoing
Date (publication)	2011-01-01
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	continual
Metadata language	en
License	Available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License v4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show