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Metadata: 2010, COWRIE Ltd., Options and opportunities for marine fisheries mitigation associated with windfarms
Abstract:
Government has committed to the UK generating 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by the year 2020 in order to reduce carbon emissions, combat climate change and secure the UK energy supply. A significant proportion of this renewable energy will come from windfarms sited off the UK coast. The establishment of windfarms at sea has the potential to cause disruption to commercial fishing activities, including through the loss of access to some fishing grounds for the operational life of the windfarm. In light of the potential for fishermen to lose access to significant sea areas within offshore windfarms, this project was focused on supporting commercial fishermen and dependent fishing communities ashore over the long term by investigating options and opportunities for marine fisheries mitigation associated with windfarms. The overall aim of the project was to develop a menu of possible mitigation options which would be of use to fishermen, developers, regulatory and statutory bodies and marine resource managers in discussions related to current and future windfarm developments, as well as in other offshore industry developments and in any future consideration of marine spatial planning issues. In brief, the aim of this project can be summarised as "Identifying ways to keep fishermen fishing".
Data holder:
The Crown Estate
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4847 |
| 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. | 2010, COWRIE Ltd., Options and opportunities for marine fisheries mitigation associated with windfarms |
| 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. | 6bc07e6d-3112-4929-9a09-79b936a97b8d |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 3225 |
| 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 | 2026-04-17 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2026-04-17 |
| 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. | Government has committed to the UK generating 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by the year 2020 in order to reduce carbon emissions, combat climate change and secure the UK energy supply. A significant proportion of this renewable energy will come from windfarms sited off the UK coast. The establishment of windfarms at sea has the potential to cause disruption to commercial fishing activities, including through the loss of access to some fishing grounds for the operational life of the windfarm. In light of the potential for fishermen to lose access to significant sea areas within offshore windfarms, this project was focused on supporting commercial fishermen and dependent fishing communities ashore over the long term by investigating options and opportunities for marine fisheries mitigation associated with windfarms. The overall aim of the project was to develop a menu of possible mitigation options which would be of use to fishermen, developers, regulatory and statutory bodies and marine resource managers in discussions related to current and future windfarm developments, as well as in other offshore industry developments and in any future consideration of marine spatial planning issues. In brief, the aim of this project can be summarised as "Identifying ways to keep fishermen fishing". |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This project was focused on supporting commercial fishermen and fishing communities over the long term by investigating options and opportunities for marine fisheries mitigation associated with windfarms. In brief, the aim of this project can be summarised as "Identifying ways to keep fishermen fishing". The project had national scope, although the diversity of environmental conditions and fishing techniques that are found around the UK mean that not all mitigation options will be relevant to all situations where windfarms and commercial fisheries interact. It is important to note that the results of the project are in no way intended to eliminate or constrain discussions between windfarm developers and the fishing industry, or amongst other stakeholders including fisheries management, science and statutory bodies. Instead, it is intended that the work is used to support and enhance discussions between the parties associated with any UK offshore windfarm development. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Research and Development Activity | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish behaviour | |
| 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 | Fish abundance in water bodies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fishery characterisation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fisheries | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 60.767202863875 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2.68743327034 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.039998103786 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -9.3331285579078 |
| 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 | ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd | |
| Phone | 02380711840 | |
| Delivery point | Medina Chambers, Town Quay, Medina Chambers,, Town Quay | |
| Postal code | SO14 2AQ | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@abpmer.co.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.abpmer.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 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | COWRIE Ltd | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1635 550380 | |
| Delivery point | c/o 36 Kingfisher Court, Hambridge Road | |
| Postal code | RG14 5SJ | |
| City | Newbury | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| cowrie@offshorewind.co.uk | ||
| URL | www.offshorewind.co.uk | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/269/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. | 2007-10-01 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2007-01-01 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-12 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2018-04-05 |
| 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 |