Review of the state of world marine fishery resources 2025

Layout

For this publication I created the complete layout, gently updating existing templates to modernize the look while retaining the corporate design integrity developed by FAO for technical papers.

Illustrations & Graphs

Many illustrations were custom made to provide section starts. I produced many graphs directly from provided data; other graphs were adjusted to seamlessly work within the visual language.

Maps

Maps were created in cooperation with fantastic specialized teams of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division (NFI) at FAO; I also drew two of the maps showing ocean currents, based on the area maps provided and using many publications on ocean currents to display data correctly (see Area 47 p. 201/pdf and & Area 61 p. 246/pdf).

Infographics

This project is the culmination of almost 3 years of work. In the first phase, infographics were produces whith the aim of incorporating socio-economic factors into the display of data. First prototypes are included for each FAO Fishing Area.

Accomplishment

This document updates the previous edition of this report in 2011. The methodology section gives a detailed overview of the updated FAO process for providing the state of stocks index, which involved 19 regional workshops and consultations, with around 650 in-person experts representing 92 countries and 200 organizations.

Given the sheer amount of data and experts involved in the process, this was a gigantic project with many missed and deferred deadlines for submitted texts. The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) had been established as the publication date for the Report—and through some very extended working hours the team managed to pull all information together so this extremely tight deadline could be met successfully.