Note: 1. The number of vessels includes all vessels registered in Denmark. All other numbers are only for active commercial vessels, with an active commercial vessel in 2012 having an annual turnover of more than DKK 250,000, with this limit being corrected for inflation. Special fisheries include vessels specialized in mussels and horse shrimp. Profit is after interest and remuneration to working owners but before taxes. Rate of return is profit in percentage of assets, excluding the value of fishing rights. FT employment is the number of working days on commercial active vessels divided by 220 days per person. Annual income is known from tax authorities and includes the full income (fishing and other income) of fishermen employed on a Danish fishing vessel for whom more than 60% of their total income comes from fishing.

2. In the published Account Statistics for Fishery, the 18-m length reported is used as the statistical limit between vessel groups. In the empirical analysis performed below, however, 17 m is used as the limit because legally, only vessels below 17 m can participate in the voluntary coastal fishermen arrangement.

Sources: The Danish AgriFish Agency, Yearbook of Fishery Statistics, Statistics Denmark, Account Statistics for Fisheries and special data extraction of tax authorities' registrations of individual persons taxable income employed at Danish fishing vessels. Data are specifically extracted for this article by merging the income statistics of Statistics Denmark with the vessel and landing statistics of the Danish Agri-Fish Agency.