2012 Marine Conservation Zone Project Stakmap Commercial Fishing under 15m vessels bottom gear summary by month dataset https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=010_b55d13a148736cd4085bee5cb5504ab1 This feature class contains interview data that has been summarised onto a grid of 3/4 of a nautical mile longitude and 3/8 of a nautical mile latitude. One condition of the research was that only those interviewees who explicitly gave permission for their data to be shared would have their own mapping represented in the final product shared with third parties. All other individuals have had their data removed from this feature class. Of 984 interviews, 594 gave their permission for their data to be shared. This summary data set represents the activities of all interviewees, the summarisation process is considered to anonymised the data to a sufficient degree to protect the individual's privacy. As an added measure of protection, data from interviews has been included in this summary table only if the following conditions have been met. 1) Permission has been granted for the individual data to be used, or 2) Five or more separate interviews are represented within a single record. This data represents the activities of vessels under 15 metres in length using mobile demersal gears. This includes: beam trawls, demersal otter trawls, unspecified bottom trawls, danish, scottish and pair seines. Beach seining has been included in the mid water trawls analysis, on the basis that it does not have heavy gear interacting with the benthos and only occurs in littoral environments. This data is presented as a series of monthly totals of vessel numbers per grid cell. 20120331