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Metadata: 2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Technical report - North sea fish and fisheries
Abstract:
This report is a contribution to the Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2, which covers the mature oil and gas fields of the Southern, Central and Northern North Sea. The report reviews the impact of human activity on fish and fisheries in the North Sea and is relevant to both SEA 2 and SEA 3 areas. The North Sea is one of the world's most important fishing grounds. In the central and northern parts there is a mixed demersal fishery that targets cod, haddock and whiting; plaice and sole are trawled in the southern and southeastern North Sea; there are extensive pelagic fisheries for herring and mackerel; crustaceans fisheries for Norway lobster, crab and scallop; and industrial fisheries for sandeel and Norway pout. Commercial fishing itself has the highest impact on fish populations. The various impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry (e.g. seismic surveys, drilling discharges, produced water discharges) are classified as intermediate in scale. The biology of the commercially important fish and shellfish that occur in the offshore waters of the North Sea is discussed. Numerous maps, showing the location of spawning activity and the location of fishing effort, are included.
Data holder:
British Geological Survey (BGS)
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 6628 |
| 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. | 2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Technical report - North sea fish and fisheries |
| 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. | aba64100-c108-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | BGS_SEA_18 |
| 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 | 2001-01-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2001-01-01 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 5 |
| Spatial resolution unit | This describes the unit of spatial resolution which for distance must be metres. | http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m |
| 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 report is a contribution to the Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2, which covers the mature oil and gas fields of the Southern, Central and Northern North Sea. The report reviews the impact of human activity on fish and fisheries in the North Sea and is relevant to both SEA 2 and SEA 3 areas. The North Sea is one of the world's most important fishing grounds. In the central and northern parts there is a mixed demersal fishery that targets cod, haddock and whiting; plaice and sole are trawled in the southern and southeastern North Sea; there are extensive pelagic fisheries for herring and mackerel; crustaceans fisheries for Norway lobster, crab and scallop; and industrial fisheries for sandeel and Norway pout. Commercial fishing itself has the highest impact on fish populations. The various impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry (e.g. seismic surveys, drilling discharges, produced water discharges) are classified as intermediate in scale. The biology of the commercially important fish and shellfish that occur in the offshore waters of the North Sea is discussed. Numerous maps, showing the location of spawning activity and the location of fishing effort, are included. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This report was prepared by scientists from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) Lowestoft Laboratory with additional data supplied by the Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. Descriptions of the seasonal distribution of commercially important fish and shellfish described in this report have been prepared using several sources of information. The most reliable of these are the routine research vessel surveys undertaken by European Research Laboratories. These annual surveys, often co-ordinated by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), target major commercial species but also record information on the distribution and abundance of the non-target components of the fish and shellfish catch. Much of the information available from these surveys has already been published in the scientific literature and, as a result of the peer review process, conforms to an acknowledged standard. |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | NDGO0001 |
| Keyword title | NERC OAI Harvesting | |
| Keyword | 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 catch statistics | |
| 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 | Habitat extent | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Industrial activity | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Energy resources | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Production and industrial facilities | |
| 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 | crust | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | sediment | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 61.8 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 3.3 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.8 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -1.9 |
| 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 | British Geological Survey (BGS) | |
| Individual name | Mary Mowat | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 667 1000 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)131 668 4140 | |
| offshoredata@bgs.ac.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 | British Geological Survey (BGS) | |
| Individual name | Paul Henni | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 667 1000 | |
| Delivery point | Murchison House, West Mains Road | |
| Postal code | EH9 3LA | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | UK | |
| offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) | |
| Phone | +44 0300 060 4000 | |
| Fax | +44 (0) 1823 284077 | |
| Delivery point | Admiralty Way | |
| Postal code | SW1A 2HD | |
| City | London | |
| Country | UK | |
| enquiries@decc.gsi.gov.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | download |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | intellectualPropertyRights | |
| 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. | The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis. |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents |
| 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. | 2001-08-01 |
| 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. | 2011-08-30 |
| 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 |