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Metadata: 2006, DHI Water and Environment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Marine Mammals in the NW3 Area, Irish Sea
Abstract:
This project examines the environmental impact on marine mammals as a result of the construction of the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm. The report contains both a baseline on the occurrence of marine mammals, an assessment of the impacts of the individual projects and all five planned wind farm projects, as well as suggestions for mitigation measures and assessments regarding the residual impacts. The impact assessment includes three different foundation designs for WoW and WoDS as well as three different layouts for WoW. The collection of baseline data in the NW3 area using aerial and ship-based survey techniques closely followed the procedures outlined in the Walney Scoping report. On the basis of these data and observations made by the Solway Shark Watch and Marine Mammal Survey, the East Irish Sea may be characterised as a region with low abundance of cetaceans and pinnipeds, although harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) display medium abundances in parts of the region. The status and distribution of marine mammals highlights the NW3 development area as relatively important to three species: harbour porpoises, bottlenose dolphins and grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Because the area plays a less significant role as either a migratory pathway or feeding habitat for the other regularly occurring species, the assessment of short- and long-term impacts focuses on these three species.
Data holder:
Scottish Power Generation Ltd
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4929 |
| 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, DHI Water and Environment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Marine Mammals in the NW3 Area, Irish Sea |
| 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. | 7c79b44f781f582985610c3ce4682c8e |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 777 |
| 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 | 2004 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2005 |
| 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'. | unknown |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This project examines the environmental impact on marine mammals as a result of the construction of the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm. The report contains both a baseline on the occurrence of marine mammals, an assessment of the impacts of the individual projects and all five planned wind farm projects, as well as suggestions for mitigation measures and assessments regarding the residual impacts. The impact assessment includes three different foundation designs for WoW and WoDS as well as three different layouts for WoW. The collection of baseline data in the NW3 area using aerial and ship-based survey techniques closely followed the procedures outlined in the Walney Scoping report. On the basis of these data and observations made by the Solway Shark Watch and Marine Mammal Survey, the East Irish Sea may be characterised as a region with low abundance of cetaceans and pinnipeds, although harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) display medium abundances in parts of the region. The status and distribution of marine mammals highlights the NW3 development area as relatively important to three species: harbour porpoises, bottlenose dolphins and grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Because the area plays a less significant role as either a migratory pathway or feeding habitat for the other regularly occurring species, the assessment of short- and long-term impacts focuses on these three species. |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Origin: DHI Water and Environment |
| 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 | Marine Biodiversity | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Underwater Noise | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Mammals | |
| 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 | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 54.028304596487 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.3784739360005 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.941211826693 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.5594815218857 |
| 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 | Scottish Power Generation Ltd | |
| Position name | Project Manager | |
| Phone | +44(0) 141 568 2000 | |
| Delivery point | Scottish Power, Cathcart Business Park, Spean Street, Glasgow, G44 4BE | |
| wind_development@scottishpower.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 | Scottish Power Generation Ltd | |
| Position name | Project Manager | |
| Phone | +44(0) 141 568 2000 | |
| Delivery point | Scottish Power, Cathcart Business Park, Spean Street, Glasgow, G44 4BE | |
| wind_development@scottishpower.com | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Scottish Power Generation Ltd | |
| Position name | Project Manager | |
| Phone | +44(0) 141 568 2000 | |
| Delivery point | Scottish Power, Cathcart Business Park, Spean Street, Glasgow, G44 4BE | |
| wind_development@scottishpower.com | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/2276/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. | 2026-04-19 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2026-04-19 |
| 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. | 2014-03-17 |
| 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 2.3.7 |