About
A data-driven brief for U.S. commercial fishing.
FisheryData is a weekly intelligence brief and data platform for U.S. commercial fishing operators, permit brokers, marine lawyers, seafood buyers, fisheries consultants, and quota investors.
What we do
Public records on commercial fisheries are fragmented across eight regional management councils, the Federal Register, NOAA Fisheries, and ten state agencies. Most of those records are published in awful formats — PDFs without OCR, GWT-era web apps, year-end status reports buried under multiple click-throughs. We aggregate, normalize, and synthesize. One email a week.
What we don't do
- We don't republish proprietary data. Urner Barry, IntraFish, and similar publications are linked, never copied.
- We don't cover recreational fishing — different audience, different policy environment, different monetization.
- We don't invent transfer prices. Alaska's CFEC does not publish per-transaction prices, and we say so plainly. We surface the time-weighted estimated values CFEC computes from its confidential transaction data, which is the best public signal available.
Editorial principles
- Lead with numbers. Every claim traces to a source we name.
- Institutional voice. Not folksy, not personality-driven.
- Plain English on regulatory text. Federal Register prose is dense by design; part of our job is translating it.
- Attribution always. Source agency, source URL, source date.
Get in touch
Tips, corrections, sponsorship inquiries: editor@fisherydata.com
Common questions
Who is FisheryData for?
Permit brokers, owner-operators, fisheries consultants, marine lawyers, seafood buyers doing supply planning, and quota investors. The audience is institutional — people whose work depends on understanding what's happening in U.S. commercial fisheries this week.
How fresh is the data?
CFEC permit values, ownership, and intents update weekly via our pipeline. Federal Register documents update daily. The weekly Tuesday brief reflects everything new since the prior Tuesday.
Why Alaska first?
Alaska's CFEC publishes the cleanest, most-machine-readable fisheries data of any U.S. state — three CSV products covering values, ownership, and intents-to-transfer, with monthly history back to 1987. Other states publish less and worse. Federal coverage (NOAA, regional councils) is national from day one.
Do you sell or share my data?
No. Email addresses go to Beehiiv (delivery) and Stripe (billing) only. We do not run ad networks, retargeting pixels, or behavioral tracking. Aggregate analytics via Google Analytics 4 only loads if you accept the cookie banner — and we configure it with IP anonymization, no Google Signals, and no ad personalization. See our privacy policy for the full list of processors.
Are you affiliated with NOAA, CFEC, or the regional councils?
No. FisheryData is independent. We aggregate and synthesize public records from those agencies; we are not endorsed by, affiliated with, or speaking for any of them.