CEFAS824c845c-09b7-48b4-8b82-00f1f0e021b3 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 2024-07-12T11:04:19 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Reconstruction of North Sea trawling effort 1985-2015 2019-03-21 publication 2024-07-12 revision 2019-03-19 creation CEFAS19722 https://data.cefas.co.uk Spatial distribution of total international otter and beam trawling fishing effort, for all ICES rectangles (0.5 degree latitude by 1 degree longitude) of the North Sea, covering a 31-year time span from 1985 to 2015. The dataset was largely reconstructed using compiled effort data from 7 fishing effort time-series and completed by estimations of missing data. Lat and Long coordinates in the data represent the centre of each ICES rectangle. 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 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk owner notPlanned Fisheries SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Modelling GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Benthic boundary 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 Public data - no limitations to reuse English biota -2.50 9.00 51.00 58.00 1985-01-01 2015-12-31 Delimited Geographic Information System Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/19722 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: CSV, ESRI Shapefile. The data can also be accessed via the WFS and WMS protocols. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Species Distribution – 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 For the 31-year period from 1985 to 2015, we collated or estimated data on total (demersal) otter and beam trawling effort per year for the North Sea, defined as ICES Sub-area IV. Specifically, the effort was quantified as number of hours fishing in a year per ICES rectangle. For each year we compiled data on trawling effort by vessels landing in Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland and Sweden, which are the most significant contributors to trawling effort in the region. Where data for a particular country and year was missing it was estimated, based on the spatial distribution of trawling effort by that same country in other periods, and on the average percentage contribution of the trawling effort by that country to the total. For each year and ICES rectangle the dataset specifies "Compiled" and "Estimated" effort, and additionally provides a "Reconstructed" effort which is the sum of the two. Sources for compiled effort data include the STECF (Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries), the MAFCONS Project (Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity), datasets from scientific publications, and national databases for England, Scotland and Denmark. Following feedback on manuscript “Couce, E., Schratzberger, M., and Engelhard, G. H.: Reconstructing three decades of total international trawling effort in the North Sea, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss, `https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-90`_, in review, 2019”, the dataset has been updated to include an estimation of errors for the reconstructed total trawling. Additionally the method for estimating missing data has been refined, leading to small variations throughout the period, and beam trawling data for the period 1997-2002 has suffered significant changes, as German trawling data is now estimated due to shrimp trawling activity being missing in the MAFCONS dataset for Germany that was used in the previous version. .. _`https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-90`: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-90 MEDIN 3.1.1