Benthic State and Change in UK Marine waters. Irish Sea benthic sampling 2006-2007 dataset https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=009_CEFAS71e7d71e-3b0e-4d4e-b678-04678689f3c4 Sampling of the biological and physical characteristics of 155 stations in the Celtic Seas, English Channel and the North Sea. This data is specifically from Irish sea samples collected in 2006-2007 and contains infromation on the abundance of macrofauna at each station. Environmental variables quantified for each station included bathymetry (except North Sea and western Scotland), stratification, bottom temperature and a number of derived granulometric parameters (e.g., % silt, % gravel, sorting coefficient, skewness, kurtosis), together with modelled parameters such as bed tidal stress, wave stress, bottom temperature, a stratification index and satellite-derived surface chlorophyll a (mean values for 2002-07 used). Estimates of the benthic productivity associated with such communities were also derived, for the first time, at this large spatial scale. 20200717 20200627