f175f24891e7740ba7f6d3d02fd9ae83 English dataset Data Archive for Marine Species and Habitats 01752 426237 dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk pointOfContact 2025-11-25 MEDIN 3.1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2021-01-06 revision WGS 84 2024 University of Plymouth Ropes to Reefs FISP Acoustic Telemetry Dataset 2025-02-04 publication DASSHDT00000541 DASSH Resource ID Reporting lower environmental impacts and higher growth potential compared to traditional inshore farms, offshore mussel farming has the potential to become one of the most sustainable, large-scale sources of healthy protein. By annually monitoring the UK's first offshore, long-line mussel farm since it was first developed in 2013 in Lyme Bay UK, the University of Plymouth has used ecological and oceanographic techniques to evidence how the farm has delivered increases in pelagic, epi-benthic and infaunal biodiversity. The Ropes to Reef project will further assess the ecosystem services and benefits offshore mussel farming and assess the restoration of essential fish habitat (EFH), biodiversity and associated healthy fish stocks (biomass). The project will also aim to quantify the connectivity of these ecosystem services and its connectivity with the adjacent MPA and spillover effect to fishing grounds. This project's methodology is based on a multi-trophic level approach combining ecological and oceanography techniques. The project will use non-destructive remote sampling techniques such as an echosounder, multibeam and ground truthing cameras deployed from local fishing boats, to produce high resolution data on the biodiversity and extent of essential fish habitat and associated mobile species. Fishes and crustaceans will also be tracked using acoustic tags via the world's first multi-farm (mussel, scallop, and seaweed) aquaculture telemetry network. This dataset is relating to the acoustic telemetry aspect of the study. University of Plymouth, School of Biological and Marine Sciences +44 1752 584600 biolmarsci@plymouth.ac.uk owner Data Archive for Marine Species and Habitats 01752 426237 dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk custodian Peter Davies Marine Institute, University of Plymouth peter.davies@plymouth.ac.uk originator Emma V Sheehan University of Plymouth, School of Biological and Marine Sciences Associate Professor of Marine Ecology emma.sheehan@plymouth.ac.uk originator Data Archive for Marine Species and Habitats 01752 426237 dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2025-11-25 revision NDGO0005 NDGO0005 2025-11-25 revision Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2021-09-28 revision Fish behaviour Habitat extent SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2021-09-28 revision Acoustics SeaDataNet PO3 Agreed Parameter Groups 2002-06-12 revision otherRestrictions Open access otherRestrictions CC-BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 biota environment -3.5417175292969 -2.5914001464844 50.347623911287 50.743815087378 SeaVox salt and freshwater body gazetteer 2021-01-06 creation Lyme Bay Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2021-01-06 creation Western Channel and Celtic Sea ICES Rectangles 2021-01-06 creation 29E6 ICES Rectangles 2021-01-06 creation 30E6 ICES Rectangles 2021-01-06 creation 30E7 ICES Statistical Areas 2021-01-06 creation VIIe 2023-12-15 2024-10-11 SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2021-01-06 revision water column https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/marine-conservation-research-group/ropes-to-reefs-fisp Delimited https://sheehanresearchgroup.com/ropes-to-reef-fisp/ A link to the general host site https://doi.org/10.17031/67a9c099e769e DOI link Link to dataset download download dataset 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 Acoustic telemetry dataset published "as is" (non-standardised).