CEFAS931c1983-b1e8-4eee-9cb6-8a3cd8029ebb 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 2025-09-24T09:59:09 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Trophic interaction data and taxonomic information for fish predators and their prey spanning the North East Atlantic and its marginal seas between 1836-2013 2020-04-30 publication 2025-09-24 revision 2020-04-15 creation CEFAS20499 https://data.cefas.co.uk Taxonomic information and the diet matrix for fish species-size-classes (rows) and their prey (columns) used to produce feeding guilds via cluster analysis for Thompson et al. (2020) ‘A feeding guild indicator to assess environmental change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and functioning’. Journal of Applied Ecology. The purpose of this study was to propose a food web indicator which has been explicitly called for to inform policy via food web status assessment as part of the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the indicator toolkit supporting The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention'). 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 Taxonomy GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Fish behaviour SeaDataNet P02 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Fish SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Benthic boundary Water column 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 -50.00 50.00 40.00 80.00 1836-01-01 2013-08-31 Binary Delimited Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/20499 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, CSV. 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 We use fish stomach contents data from DAPSTOM ( `https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/fish-stomach-records/`_) and ICES Year of the Stomach ( `https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Documents/StomachData.pdf`_). DAPSTOM is an ongoing initiative digitizing fish stomach records. The database contains information collected between 1836-2013 on 187 predator species (most occurring in northern European groundfish surveys). ICES Year of The Stomach Dataset contains records from 35 fish species between 1980-1991 sampled in the North Sea. Both datasets have information on predator-prey interactions for given sea areas and years. The new trophic interaction dataset presents binary information of interactions detected from across the North East Atlantic and its marginal seas, from 415,294 fish stomachs. .. _`https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/fish-stomach-records/`: https://www.cefas.co.uk/data-and-publications/fish-stomach-records/ .. _`https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/documents/stomachdata.pdf`: https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Documents/StomachData.pdf MEDIN 3.1.1