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# FAO FishStat: no public JSON API; data is baked into server-rendered HTML

```
GET https://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics-query/en/global_production
→ HTTP 302 → /fishery/statistics-query/en/global_production/en
→ (follow) HTTP 200, 70,676 bytes, text/html
```

The "statistics query" web app that fronts FAO's fisheries production data
(the online face of the FishStatJ desktop tool's underlying database) is a
Qwik-framework single-page app. Its only linked JS asset
(`/fishery/build/q-naDMFAHy.js`, 3,100 bytes) is just the generic Qwik
event-loader shim — no fetch calls or API base URL appear in it; the app
does not lazy-load data from a separate JSON endpoint at request time.

Instead, the page itself embeds the server-computed view state directly in
a `<script type="qwik/json">` block in the returned HTML:

```
<script type="qwik/json">{"refs":{"2":"13","10":"vw", …},"ctx":{"0":{"w":"13"}, …
```

This is Qwik's resumability mechanism — the server renders the full app
state once and ships it inline so the client can "resume" without
re-fetching — which means there is no discoverable, separately-callable
REST/JSON endpoint behind this UI for an agent to hit directly; each
query configuration requires a fresh server-rendered page load, and
the production numbers are not retrievable as a standalone API response.

This matches FAO's own published guidance: bulk/structured access to the
same dataset is offered as **downloads through the FishStatJ desktop
application** (`fao.org/fishery/en/statistics/software/fishstatj`, itself a
301 redirect to a non-HTTPS legacy URL,
`http://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/software/fishstatj/en`), not as a
web API — the online query tool is a convenience UI over the same
database, not an alternate machine interface.

The 302 chain itself is a small trap in its own right: the first hop
(`/fishery/statistics-query/en/global_production` →
`/fishery/statistics-query/en/global_production/en`) just appends the
already-present `en` language segment a second time rather than redirecting
to a genuinely different canonical path — a client naively retrying the
*original* URL after a 301/302 without following it would loop on a URL
that never resolves on its own, since the server expects the client to
follow the redirect rather than treat it as a normalized final form.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:56:45Z–10:57:10Z, curl 8.x GET (`-L` to follow
redirects, plain GET for the JS bundle), `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 20`.

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