It's a life, but not as we know it

A recently launched online dataset by the UK fishing authority Seafish contains estimates of the financial and business performance of the British fishing fleet and fleet segments.

The data contains annual estimates of a variety of business and financial indicators for the years 2005-2012 for 30 different UK fleet segments, based on official landings, vessel and activity data for every vessel in the UK fleet and on sets of accounts, supplied voluntarily by vessel owners to the agency.

Results suggest the UK fishing fleet’s fuel bill hit an all-time high in 2012, amounting to around £182 million (€212.5