CEFASc100d500-8e02-4313-af94-182139298302 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 2025-10-13T01:36:16 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Fisheries Sensitivity Mapping and Displacement Modelling (FiSMaDiM) - Fisheries Sensitivity Index 2 - data product - average for 2012 to 2021 2025-05-01 publication 2025-10-13 revision 2024-09-05 creation CEFAS22026 https://data.cefas.co.uk This data product comprises a Fisheries Sensitivity Index 2 (weighted) separately generated for eight gear groups which can be used to measure the economic importance of the fishing location to the industry including aspects of irreplaceability of the catch, economic dependency of the fishing activity on access to the site but also potential economic impact on the industry by removing access but also accounts for the fact that importance of a fishing location might vary over the years. 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 Economics Analysis Human impacts GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Human activity Fisheries SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Fishery characterisation SeaDataNet P02 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Statistical units 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 Public data - no limitations to reuse English economy -25.00 14.00 45.00 65.00 2012-01-01 2021-12-31 Binary Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/22026 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 Statistical Units – 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 The index was applied to a dataset combining VMS (Vessel Monitoring System) and AIS (Automatic Identification System) data for UK fishing vessels for the years 2012-2021 in the UK EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone), hence predominantly including information of vessels with length above 12m, combined with catch reports provided by MMO fisheries data using VMStools (Hintzen et al. 2012) and aggregated into a C-square grid (0.05 x 0.05 degree). An average of the index for all years (2012-2021), the most recent 5 years (2017-2021) and the most recent 3 years (2019-2021) are provided. MMO (Marine Management Organisation) fisheries data was last updated November 2023. Grid cells in which 3 or less vessels are fishing are denoted by -999 and actual value suppressed to acknowledge commercial sensitivity of the information. In collaboration with a project advisory group, sensitivity indicators were developed seeking to capture the importance of the fishing location for the industry in terms of economic dependency, irreplaceability, etc. The individual indicators were summarized as sensitivity index 2 weighted by the fraction of years the area scored positive in the respective indicator for each gear group. For a detailed description of the method see Muench, A., Gibson, T.I., Mendo, T., Swift, R., James, M., Wright, K., Simmons, E. (2024): Mapping the sensitivity of fishing activities in the UK EEZ, Report produced for The Crown Estate, OWEC funded project: FiSMaDiM, 81 pages. Doi: `https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.OWEC.002`_. & Muench, A., Mendo, T.; Ransijn, J.; Durbach, I. Gibson, T.; Swift, R., James, M: Fisheries Sensitivity Mapping and Displacement Modelling (FiSMaDiM) – Final Project Report. Report produced for The Crown Estate, OWEC funded project: FiSMaDiM, 35 pages. Doi: `https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.OWEC.004`_. .. _`https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.owec.002`: https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.OWEC.002 .. _`https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.owec.004`: https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.OWEC.004 MEDIN 3.1.1