Indfangst

Indfangst is a Danish term that denotes the act of capturing or the quantity captured, with usage most common in fishing, wildlife management, and law enforcement. It refers to the catch taken during a specified period or area, and can also describe the act of seizing people or contraband in a legal context. The word combines the prefix ind- (in, inward) with fangst (capture or seizure).

In fisheries and wildlife management, indfangst is a key metric used to quantify the amount of resource brought in by fisheries or collected through trapping or hunting. It is often reported as landed catch to authorities and is used in stock assessments, quota monitoring, and economic statistics. The indfangst may be expressed in weight (for example, tonnes of fish) and may be accompanied by species composition.

The term is closely related to fangst, which broadly means capture or catch, with indfangst signaling the act or total amount captured in a given context. While primarily applied to catch data in fisheries, the word can also appear in other contexts where capture or seizure is involved, including law enforcement or management activities.

See also: fangst, landinger, quota, stock assessment, hunting and trapping.