fdbff255e19248954f561d17a3eec6c8 English dataset Trevor Harrison Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Fish Monitoring and Assessment Team Marine.InfoRequests@daera-ni.gov.uk pointOfContact 2021-04-16 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 2020 DAERA (The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs) Fish Estuary-Association Scores (FEAS) 2020-11-18 publication 2020-11-01 creation 2020-11-01 revision DAERA-FEAS A dataset of the degree or level of estuarine association for some 6200 fish species. The dataset comprises a fish estuary-association score (FEAS) system that numerically expresses the degree or level of estuarine association for each species. The FEAS ranges between 1.0 and 5.0 where fish species with a score close to 1.0 are regarded as freshwater species with little association or dependence on estuarine environments (freshwater straggler species) while those species with a score close to 5.0 are marine species that are typically not associated or dependent on estuaries (marine straggler species). Fish species with a FEAS close to 3.0 are dependent on estuaries for all or part of their life cycle. Estuary-use functional guild categories for each species is also provided. These consist of marine stragglers (MS), marine migrants (MM), estuarine species (ES), diadromous species (DI), freshwater migrants (FM), and freshwater stragglers (FS). Diadromous species were further sub-divided into anadromous species (DI(AN)), catadromous species (DI(CA)), and amphidromous species (DI(AM)). Trevor Harrison Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Fish Monitoring and Assessment Team Marine.InfoRequests@daera-ni.gov.uk originator Trevor Harrison Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Fish Monitoring and Assessment Team Marine.InfoRequests@daera-ni.gov.uk custodian asNeeded Database Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Fish abundance in water bodies Fish taxonomy-related counts SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Marine UNESCO 2003-01-01 creation Biodiversity GEMET 2011-07-06 creation Species Distribution INSPIRE 2017-05-12 creation open government license (OGL) otherRestrictions open access English biota SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision inapplicable -7.3833 -5.2739 53.9639 55.3492 2015-01-09 2020-11-01 Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) Data Manager 01752 633102 01752 633291 Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor https://doi.org/10.17031/1678 A link to the web service or dataset http://www.dassh.ac.uk/ General website for The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH) DASSH is the UK Data Archive Centre for marine biodiversity data for both species and habitats dataset Information on life histories and estuarine use functional guilds was collated for each fish species through an extensive review of the scientific literature as well as internet resources such as FishBase (Froese and Pauly, 2019) and the IUCN (IUCN, 2020). Over 230 published references on coastal fishes were evaluated. Each record or reference for each species was assigned to one of six estuarine use functional guilds developed by Elliott et al. (2007). Each functional guild was then allocated a numerical value of between 1 and 5 where: Freshwater stragglers (FS) = 1 Freshwater migrants (FM) = 2 Estuarine species (ES) = 3 Diadromous species (DI) = 3 Marine migrants (MM) = 4 Marine stragglers (MS) = 5 An overall fish estuary-association score (FEAS) was calculated for each fish species, which was determined as the mean (±SE) of all estuary use functional guild values. This data set has not been standardised within DASSH, and therefore has not been through the same DASSH QA procedures.