Data for " Bridging the gap in fishing effort mapping. A spatially-explicit fisheries dataset for Campanian MPAs, Italy"

The dataset consists of spatially-explicit information on large- and small-scale fishing effort, harnessing vessel tracking data and participatory mapping. In particular, five fishing effort files are provided: three shapefiles informing on LSF (N.1 at 500th-degree resolution in GSA 10, and N.2 at 100th-degree resolution within the case study area) and two shapefiles on SSF (consisting of the digitised polygons and the related gridded data at 0.01°x 0.01° within the case study area, respectively). In all the shapefiles, the attribute table displays the cell ID and the geographical coordinates of the vertices of each cell. The common lattice grid used within the case study area (released too, as "feamp_grid") promotes the joining and overlaying of the released LSF and SSF effort data. A README.txt file is provided and contains the table schemas and additional information. Furthermore, the chain of the operations concerning the SSF datasets was wrapped into a single process using the QGIS graphical modeler and released as .model3 file. It allows even novice GIS users to easily reproduce the workflow with their own set of inputs (i.e., digitised SSF polygons and aggregation grid), saving time and effort. A small guide is also shared (“step-by-step_guide.pdf”), to help users add the provided tools and run the final model "effort_grid.model3".