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license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: FishRadar Global Bite Index (daily, by country)
tags:
- fishing
- ocean
- weather
- time-series
- environment
size_categories:
- n<1K
FishRadar Global Bite Index — daily, by country
A daily "bite index" (0–100) for recreational fishing conditions, computed every night by FishRadar across ~650 tracked fishing spots in 28 countries, and aggregated here as per-country daily means plus a global mean.
The index fuses live sea-surface temperature, current, chlorophyll, tide, moon phase, barometric pressure, wind and waves into a single per-spot score (methodology: https://fishradar.ai/methodology). All values are FishRadar's own computations — no third-party data is redistributed.
- Temporal coverage: 2026-06-19 → 2026-08-20 (63 days; updated periodically from the nightly run)
- File:
bite-index-daily.jsonl— one row per day:day,global(mean 0–100),n(spots scored),countries({ISO2: mean}) - License: CC-BY-4.0 — cite "FishRadar (fishradar.ai)"
Long-format CSV (day,country,bite_index,spots_scored) in three lines:
const rows = require('fs').readFileSync('bite-index-daily.jsonl','utf8').trim().split('\n').map(JSON.parse);
const out = ['day,country,bite_index,spots_scored'];
for (const r of rows) { out.push(`${r.day},GLOBAL,${r.global},${r.n}`); for (const [c,v] of Object.entries(r.countries)) out.push(`${r.day},${c},${v},`); }
What feeds the index, explained for humans:
- Tide timing (the strongest single driver in coastal spots): how to read tides for fishing, plus live NOAA tide tables for 51 US fishing spots
- Incoming vs outgoing tide — which half actually bites
- The newest signal FishRadar ships: FishRadar Ear, on-device detection of the sounds fish actually make (do fish make sounds?)
Sibling datasets: fishing-regulations · fish-species-catalog