Hi Marco,

The FAO Project MedSudMed (www.faomedsudmed.org) is working with Tunisia and Lybia on fisheries research and did some joint research surveys in both countries. They can have some information so you can tray through the Webpage or contacting Luca Ceriola at [email protected] an officer involve in this project.

You can also visit www.faocopemed.org another proejct were I was involved but I dont think there are the data you are looking for.

A free website is Marine Traffic:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/it/ais/home/

There are no official hourly records, VMS data of EU vessels is polled at 2 h intervals. However some vessels have AIS (marine traffic above) and you can get access to that data but you may have to pay and you need to know what the vessel is and what it does. In addition there will be many other vessels without either AIS or VMS

Dear all,

thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately marinetraffic.com is not free for the resolution I would need. However all further suggestion will be welcome!

Best regards

Hi Marco,

Maybe you could telephone some fishermen´s associations asking for information. Identifying yourself as a researcher and explaining them the purpose of your study should be enough to get the most important fishing points in the area.

If not, you can try to talk with your closest  fishermen association and ask them to call in your name. Thus, a direct link from "fishermen to fishermen" could be easier to get the info...

I hope this will help you!

Best regards!