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The requirement to display sensitive areas relating to the life history of commercially important fish species in British waters is well recognized. Sensitive areas have previously been described as spawning and nursery grounds. Here we consider only areas where there is evidence of aggregations of 0 group fish and/or larvae of key commercial species. 0 group fish are defined as fish in the first year of their lives. These fish sensitivity maps were originally generated to provide a spatial and temporal description of where physical damage could potentially occur to fish species at sensitive stages in essential habitats of their life cycle. Sources of damage in this context referred to seismic surveying conducted by the offshore Oil and Gas industry during their site investigations. In addition to the acoustic energy that the seismic survey activities generate, we should now add other percussive impact noises from pile-driving seabed foundation pins into the seabed, such as those required for offshore renewable energy sites. The spatial location of these fish life history events and their potential interaction with offshore industries can heavily influence the planning, costs and delivery of these offshore developments. It is imperative that these maps reflect the current extent of these areas.
Scottish Government (Marine Scotland)
no limitations to public access
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Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 6139 |
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. | Updating Fisheries Sensitivity Maps in British Waters |
Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 5 Number 10 |
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. | Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1555 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1555 |
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 | 2014-01-01 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2014-12-31 |
Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 55000.00 |
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'. | Not Planned |
Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The requirement to display sensitive areas relating to the life history of commercially important fish species in British waters is well recognized. Sensitive areas have previously been described as spawning and nursery grounds. Here we consider only areas where there is evidence of aggregations of 0 group fish and/or larvae of key commercial species. 0 group fish are defined as fish in the first year of their lives. These fish sensitivity maps were originally generated to provide a spatial and temporal description of where physical damage could potentially occur to fish species at sensitive stages in essential habitats of their life cycle. Sources of damage in this context referred to seismic surveying conducted by the offshore Oil and Gas industry during their site investigations. In addition to the acoustic energy that the seismic survey activities generate, we should now add other percussive impact noises from pile-driving seabed foundation pins into the seabed, such as those required for offshore renewable energy sites. The spatial location of these fish life history events and their potential interaction with offshore industries can heavily influence the planning, costs and delivery of these offshore developments. It is imperative that these maps reflect the current extent of these areas. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Data on the distribution of fish species in British waters are collected yearly through the regular stock monitoring surveys as conducted by European marine research institutes in their role as fisheries data suppliers to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). Data used for this update have again been taken from various of these available sources including the National and International Bottom Trawl Surveys (BTS, IBTS), Beam Trawl Surveys (BTS) and International Herring Larval Surveys (IHLS). In addition to these, commercial fishing observer trips and stand-alone surveys to investigate particular issues have provided further data on the distribution of 0 group fish of relevant species. As well as new and additional data, different data analysis techniques have been used to generate alternative outputs from the existing survey datasets. The principal analysis technique used was Species Distribution Modelling (SDM), also known as Habitat Suitability Models or Ecological Niche Models. These models combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental data |
Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Coull, K.A., Johnstone, R., and Rogers, S.I. (1998). Fisheries Sensitivity Maps in British Waters. Published and distributed by UKOOA Ltd., Aberdeen, 58 pp. |
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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 | Fisheries | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Man-made structures | |
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North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 61.5 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 50 |
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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 Government (Marine Scotland) | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
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 Government (Marine Scotland) | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
Delivery point | Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
City | Edinburgh | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
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 Government (Marine Scotland) | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
Delivery point | Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
City | Edinburgh | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
Organisation name | Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
Delivery point | Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
City | Edinburgh | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | Marine Scotland | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
Delivery point | 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
City | Edinburgh | |
Country | United Kingdom | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/1555-1 |
Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/1555-1 |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | no limitations to public access |
21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | Open Government License (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/) |
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. | 2014-12-19 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2018-09-18 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.7 |
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