CEFAS589b258e-a1cc-4a70-90e8-4776989754b9 English dataset Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk pointOfContact 2025-08-13T09:51:30 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 AquaSmart Aquaculture Suitability Layers for Penang, Malaysia 2025-01-14 publication 2025-08-13 revision 2024-12-11 creation CEFAS22090 https://data.cefas.co.uk The AquaSmart project aim was to identify potential areas of aquaculture development around the island of Penang, Malaysia for 5 different species; ogonori seaweed (*Gracilaria lichenodes*), blood cockle (*Tegillarca granosa*), slipper oyster (*Crassostrea iredalei*), tropical oyster ( *Crassostrea belcheri*), and barramundi (*Lates calcarifer*). To achieve this aquaculture suitability layers were generated that represent the areas that have the best range of environmental conditions for these species when grown under aquaculture (farming) conditions. These spatial data layers were generated in August 2024, and refined in September 2024 following comments from the 2nd AquaSmart workshop in Malaysia. This data comprises the spatial data habitat suitability layers for the 5 species as GeoTiff raster data, along with a georeferenced layered pdf map which serves to enable non-specialist users to be able to understand the conflicts and potential area of aquaculture development in the region. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk custodian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk distributor Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) data.manager@cefas.co.uk owner notPlanned Aquaculture Aquatic environment Mariculture GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Agricultural and aquaculture facilities GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2010-05-18 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication otherRestrictions noLimitations otherRestrictions Publicly available data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 ( `https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/`_ ) – Please note the applicable attribution statement is as follows: ‘includes Crown copyright, Cefas 2024' .. _`https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/`: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ English farming 100.00 110.00 0.00 10.00 2023-10-01 2024-10-31 Binary Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/22090 Cefas Data Portal download The Cefas Data Portal contains metadata records and data sets available to download and connect to in support of our commitment to open science. Data is available in the following formats: Binary download. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Agricultural and Aquaculture Facilities – Technical Guidelines 2013-12-10 publication false See the referenced specification Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication true See the referenced specification Suitability was assessed by classifying the environmental variables as either unsuitable (growth unlikely), suboptimal (limited growth) or optimal (ideal growth conditions) and overlaying the classified layers to generate a suitability score of 0 (one or more environmental variables were unsuitable), or a value between 1 (all environmental variables were suboptimal for growth) and 2 (all environmental variables were optimal for growth). Environmental data was taken from data sets from 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2022 and 4 seasonal time periods were used in the analysis; North-East monsoon (1st Dec to 31st Mar); inter-monsoon period 1 (1st Apr to 31st May); South-west monsoon (1st Jun to 30th Sep); and inter-monsoon period 2 (1st Oct to 30th Nov). All processing was performed in R (version 4.1.2); prior to the processing, the source data layers were resampled to a grid with a resolution of 0.01° using ArcGIS Pro to ensure alignment and consistency of gridded data. The environmental 3rd party data layers used are detailed in the attached supplementary information, along with the thresholds for each species. MEDIN 3.1.1