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Metadata: UK Marine Ornamental Trade: Species-Level Import Records on Corals, Invertebrates, and Fish in 2018 and 2019
Abstract:
The dataset provides species-level information, as declared by the exporter, for marine ornamental species that were imported into the UK during select periods in 2018 and 2019. The study was undertaken to support the provision of higher resolution data on the UK’s marine ornamental trade at a Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) technical workshop on the conservation and management of marine ornamental fish (Decision 18.296). The dataset provides a snapshot in space and time of the UK's marine ornamental import trade and should be interpreted as such.
Data holder:
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS)
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 11195 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | UK Marine Ornamental Trade: Species-Level Import Records on Corals, Invertebrates, and Fish in 2018 and 2019 |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | CEFASffc19061-a48f-4f72-bb10-df0fefa95283 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | CEFAS22274 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2018 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2019 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The dataset provides species-level information, as declared by the exporter, for marine ornamental species that were imported into the UK during select periods in 2018 and 2019. The study was undertaken to support the provision of higher resolution data on the UK’s marine ornamental trade at a Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) technical workshop on the conservation and management of marine ornamental fish (Decision 18.296). The dataset provides a snapshot in space and time of the UK's marine ornamental import trade and should be interpreted as such. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | A sample of hard copy sales invoices from import manifests were collected from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) at Heathrow airport Border Inspection Post. The sample comprised of marine invoices from the second week of each month, from March 2018 to November 2019. Records were manually digitized into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Along with species, digitizers recorded the number of individuals, the value (unit and total cost), the aquatic environment declared on the invoice (marine, freshwater or both), and whether the organisms were declared to be wild caught or captive bred, as detailed in the sales invoice. Only marine species are provided in this dataset, and all commercially sensitive information has been redacted. It should be noted that during the data collation period, the UK was still part of the European Union and imports were handled using the Trade and Control Expert System (TRACES). Once all sales invoices containing marine species from the sample had been digitised, data were cleaned to standardise records. First, we used the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board, 2024), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to correct species names, and acquire taxonomic information (Family, Order and Class). We used the worrms (Chamberlain and Vanhoorne, 2023), rgbif (Chamberlain et al., 2024) and taxize (Chamberlain et al. 2020) packages to interface with the respective databases. In cases where only common names were recorded, or where incorrect names were not detected as synonyms by WoRMS, we manually identified the taxa. We also used WoRMS to identify the environment in which the species lives: marine, freshwater or brackish and those assigned to freshwater and brackish were excluded from further analyses. Next, we used IUCN and CITES listings to ascertain the conservation status of the species in the record. IUCN listings were acquired using the rredlist package (Gearty and Chamberlain, 2022), which interfaces with the IUCN Red List API. We acquired CITES listings using the rcites package (Geschke et al. 2023), which interfaces with the Species+ database. Where source (wild caught or cultivated) was declared, records were labelled as “Declared wild” or “Declared farmed”. Where no declaration was made in the shipment documentation, records were labelled as NA. Finally, we converted all currencies to USD. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Biodiversity |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | data.gov.uk | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.4595 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.74086 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.4581 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.73881 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
| Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
| Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
| City | Lowestoft | |
| Administrative area | Suffolk | |
| Country | UK | |
| data.manager@cefas.co.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) | |
| defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/22274 |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | Cefas Data Portal |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | noLimitations | |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2025-11-27 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2026-01-20 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2025-07-17 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-01-20 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.1 |