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Metadata: 2006, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd. (CMACS), Desk Based Review of Fish Communities of the Wash
Abstract:
This series focuses on the fish species likely to be present within the Wash and which would therefore be subject to assessment for impacts from installation and operation of the wind farm export power cable. In addition, the presence of any important fish habitats such as spawning and nursery areas has also been identified along with any rare or protected fish species which may be found within the area. It was initially decided to undertake a series of detailed beam and otter trawls within the Wash to inform the Environment Impact Assessment. However, this was deemed as being too intrusive to the Wash Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by English Nature (EN). EN advised reviewing the available data for biological fish communities of the Wash in the first instance, and in particular, the long-term data set held by CEFAS for young fish surveys. EN further advised that data collection should only be considered if the existing data highlighted significant data gaps. It was therefore decided that this investigation would be entirely desk based drawing upon data from a variety of sources including the existing CEFAS young fish survey beam trawl data. It was found that the dominant species present were as expected for an area where the predominant habitat type is shallow sand substrates although the data was skewed towards demersal species due to the type of gear used for the CEFAS surveys. The distribution of fish species varies significantly on a small-scale basis over small time periods although a number of species also show distinct seasonal movements.
Data holder:
Centrica Renewable Energy Limited
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4459 |
| 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. | 2006, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd. (CMACS), Desk Based Review of Fish Communities of the Wash |
| 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. | 24f15a257476577e8c2cba21793e9737 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 1188 |
| 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 | 2026-04-19 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2026-04-19 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| 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. | This series focuses on the fish species likely to be present within the Wash and which would therefore be subject to assessment for impacts from installation and operation of the wind farm export power cable. In addition, the presence of any important fish habitats such as spawning and nursery areas has also been identified along with any rare or protected fish species which may be found within the area. It was initially decided to undertake a series of detailed beam and otter trawls within the Wash to inform the Environment Impact Assessment. However, this was deemed as being too intrusive to the Wash Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by English Nature (EN). EN advised reviewing the available data for biological fish communities of the Wash in the first instance, and in particular, the long-term data set held by CEFAS for young fish surveys. EN further advised that data collection should only be considered if the existing data highlighted significant data gaps. It was therefore decided that this investigation would be entirely desk based drawing upon data from a variety of sources including the existing CEFAS young fish survey beam trawl data. It was found that the dominant species present were as expected for an area where the predominant habitat type is shallow sand substrates although the data was skewed towards demersal species due to the type of gear used for the CEFAS surveys. The distribution of fish species varies significantly on a small-scale basis over small time periods although a number of species also show distinct seasonal movements. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The Centre for Marine & Coastal Studies (CMACS) Ltd was commissioned by RES to investigate the fish species of the Wash to inform an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a proposed cable route from the proposed Lincs, Docking Shoal and Race bank Offshore Wind Farm through the Wash Estuary to a landfall location just east of the River Nene on the Lincolnshire coastline. |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Origin: CMACS Ltd |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | 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 | Consenting | |
| 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 | Fish abundance in water bodies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat characterisation | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.334745321484 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.89551225739273 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.133685685506 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.44765720155553 |
| 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 | Centrica Renewable Energy Limited | |
| Position name | GIS and Data Manager | |
| Phone | 01753 492188 | |
| Delivery point | Millstream East 1st Floor, Maidenhead Road | |
| Postal code | SL4 5GD | |
| City | Windsor | |
| Administrative area | Berkshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| renewables@centrica.com | ||
| URL | www.centrica.com | |
| 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 | Centrica Renewable Energy Limited | |
| Position name | GIS and Data Manager | |
| Phone | 01753 492188 | |
| Delivery point | Millstream East 1st Floor, Maidenhead Road | |
| Postal code | SL4 5GD | |
| City | Windsor | |
| Administrative area | Berkshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| renewables@centrica.com | ||
| URL | www.centrica.com | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Centrica Renewable Energy Limited | |
| Position name | GIS and Data Manager | |
| Phone | 01753 492188 | |
| Delivery point | Millstream East 1st Floor, Maidenhead Road | |
| Postal code | SL4 5GD | |
| City | Windsor | |
| Administrative area | Berkshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| renewables@centrica.com | ||
| URL | www.centrica.com | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/902/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | 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. | no conditions apply |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | |
| 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. | 2006-04-03 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2006 |
| 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. | 2007-11-23 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.5 |