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Metadata: 2013, Precision Marine Survey, Westermost Rough, Fish and Shellfish Monitoring
Abstract:
The UK government actively supports the development of renewable energy sources, with offshore wind farms (OWF) being its’ primary focus. The Holderness Coast fishery, in the North East coast of the England, is situated in an area of significant OWF construction. This study focused on the Westermost Rough OWF development. It aimed to contribute to an attempt to address deficiencies in the current state of knowledge of the effects of OWFs on fish and shellfish populations, by providing a baseline of pre-construction data. The survey was designed to accurately model local fishing practices and to avoid the shortcomings of some other OWF monitoring programs, by employing “treatment” (physically affected by construction activity) and “control” (undisturbed) sampling locations. Four fleets of lobster pots were used to collect samples. One treatment fleet was deployed on the planned cable route and a second in the turbine array site. A control fleet was positioned at least 1000m to the North of each treatment fleet, outside of the planned construction location. Each fleet was hauled approximately every 3 days, between July and September 2013. Sex, abundance, size, condition and ovigerous status of individuals of the key commercial species Homarus gammarus, Cancer pagurus and Necora puber were recorded for the entire catch. There were few differences between the treatment and control fleets. Size and abundance varied between sexes and between the inshore and offshore areas, with lager animals predominantly located offshore. Lobsters showed a high abundance of individuals that were healthy or soft shelled; whilst edible crab had a high abundance of individuals with ‘Black Spot Disease’. The fishery within Westermost Rough focuses on the abundant, high value lobster, while there is a larger, but diseased and therefore lower value edible crab population. The study provided a highly detailed baseline data set, which will enable direct comparison to postconstruction monitoring. It is to be hoped that this will support the already productive relationship between OWF developers and the fishing industry. The minutes from a steering group meeting discussing the results, quality and future monitoring are included.
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 19020 |
| 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. | 2013, Precision Marine Survey, Westermost Rough, Fish and Shellfish Monitoring |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | Fish and Shellfish Monitoring |
| 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. | 213a7473-59b5-4dea-8332-d1479c732bd4 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | TCE-2340 |
| 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. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2013-06-20 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2013-09-09 |
| 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 UK government actively supports the development of renewable energy sources, with offshore wind farms (OWF) being its’ primary focus. The Holderness Coast fishery, in the North East coast of the England, is situated in an area of significant OWF construction. This study focused on the Westermost Rough OWF development. It aimed to contribute to an attempt to address deficiencies in the current state of knowledge of the effects of OWFs on fish and shellfish populations, by providing a baseline of pre-construction data. The survey was designed to accurately model local fishing practices and to avoid the shortcomings of some other OWF monitoring programs, by employing “treatment” (physically affected by construction activity) and “control” (undisturbed) sampling locations. Four fleets of lobster pots were used to collect samples. One treatment fleet was deployed on the planned cable route and a second in the turbine array site. A control fleet was positioned at least 1000m to the North of each treatment fleet, outside of the planned construction location. Each fleet was hauled approximately every 3 days, between July and September 2013. Sex, abundance, size, condition and ovigerous status of individuals of the key commercial species Homarus gammarus, Cancer pagurus and Necora puber were recorded for the entire catch. There were few differences between the treatment and control fleets. Size and abundance varied between sexes and between the inshore and offshore areas, with lager animals predominantly located offshore. Lobsters showed a high abundance of individuals that were healthy or soft shelled; whilst edible crab had a high abundance of individuals with ‘Black Spot Disease’. The fishery within Westermost Rough focuses on the abundant, high value lobster, while there is a larger, but diseased and therefore lower value edible crab population. The study provided a highly detailed baseline data set, which will enable direct comparison to postconstruction monitoring. It is to be hoped that this will support the already productive relationship between OWF developers and the fishing industry. The minutes from a steering group meeting discussing the results, quality and future monitoring are included. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This metadata file was created by The Crown Estate for the purpose of publishing on the Marine Data Exchange. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Shellfish abundance and biomass in water bodies |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish and shellfish catch statistics | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Pre-Construction monitoring | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Renewable Energy Lease area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Offshore Cable Corridor | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.843953431842 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.21632170246494 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.767314211263 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.086843046261304 |
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Precision Marine Survey Limited | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1964 624423 | |
| info@precisionmarine.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Orsted | |
| info@orsted.com | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-2340/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| 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 | There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange | |
| Once published, there will be no limitations on public access. Data must be used in accordance with the Marine Data Exchanges Terms of Use which can be found on the website. | ||
| 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 | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use |
| This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Once published, there will be no constraints on access and use. Data must be used in accordance with the Marine Data Exchanges Terms of Use which can be found on the website. | |
| 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. | 2021-05-17 |
| 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. | 2026-03-11 |
| 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 | 3.1.2 |