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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 |
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| # FishRadar Global Bite Index — daily, by country |
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| A daily "bite index" (0–100) for recreational fishing conditions, computed every night by |
| [FishRadar](https://fishradar.ai) across ~650 tracked fishing spots in 28 countries, and |
| aggregated here as per-country daily means plus a global mean. |
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| 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. |
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| - **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)" |
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| Long-format CSV (`day,country,bite_index,spots_scored`) in three lines: |
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| ```js |
| 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},`); } |
| ``` |
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| What feeds the index, explained for humans: |
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| - Tide timing (the strongest single driver in coastal spots): [how to read tides |
| for fishing](https://fishradar.ai/learn/how-to-read-tides-for-fishing/), plus live |
| [NOAA tide tables for 51 US fishing spots](https://fishradar.ai/tides/) |
| - [Incoming vs outgoing tide](https://fishradar.ai/learn/incoming-vs-outgoing-tide/) — |
| which half actually bites |
| - The newest signal FishRadar ships: [FishRadar Ear](https://fishradar.ai/ear/), |
| on-device detection of the sounds fish actually make |
| ([do fish make sounds?](https://fishradar.ai/learn/do-fish-make-sounds/)) |
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| Sibling datasets: [fishing-regulations](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Ali4333/fishing-regulations) · |
| [fish-species-catalog](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Ali4333/fish-species-catalog) |
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