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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marine Monitoring Sites</dc:title>
  <dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">dataset</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=007_NRW_DS108805</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Site location of Natural Resources Wales' (NRWs) Marine Monitoring Sites within Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). This is general location of the sites where marine monitoring takes place and does not show the individual sample locations. It includes the location of monitoring sites for subtidal rock, subtidal sediment, intertidal rock, intertidal sediment, lagoons, marine climate monitoring sites, marine birds and bird food sites, seals and cetacean monitoring sites as well as areas where acoustic and drop down video monitoring takes place. 

Information is also available for potential sea cave monitoring sites, however this is not currently a NRW monitoring programme. 

The purpose of this data capture was to provide an overview of Countryside Council for Wales' (CCW) Marine SAC Monitoring Sites. This is a Wales-wide but concentrated in the SAC and Special Protection Areas (SPAs). However additional sites will be added as they are identified.</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20081231</dc:date>
</oai_dc:dc>
