Bottom trawl fishery monitoring by commercial vessels in the Croatian waters of the Adriatic Sea

Data were collected during annual monitoring of commercial bottom trawl fishery carried out in the Croatian territorial waters of the Adriatic Sea. Data about qualitative and quantitative composition of demersal species, abundance and biomass are collected. Data were uploaded on official DCF database. Data have been collected within EU-Data collection framework (EU-DCF) as related to monitoring of commercial fisheries (Acronim: DCF); possible use of data collected within EU-DCF, as submitted to Joint Research Center (JRC) database, is regulated by Council Regulation (EC) No. 199/2008.