Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12227 eng dataset Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 marinescotland@gov.scot pointOfContact 2019-08-13 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Version 2.3.7 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Contaminant and biological effect data 1999-2017 for the 2018 CSEMP assessment 2019-08-13 publication Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12227 The 2018 assessment of the UK's Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme described the status and trends of contaminant concentrations and biological effects measurements in biota and sediment at monitoring stations in waters around the UK. Assessments were made for a large number of time series, typically each of a single contaminant in a single species (for biota) at a single monitoring station. The results of the individual time series at coastal and offshore stations were synthesised to assess status and trends at the biogeographic regional level. Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot pointOfContact Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot custodian Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot distributor Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (Afbi) +44 (0)28 9025 5636 18a Newforge Lane Belfast BT9 5PX United Kingdom info@afbini.gov.uk originator Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture (CEFAS) +44 (0) 1502 562244 Pakefield Road Lowestoft NR33 0HT United Kingdom data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Environment Agency +44 (0) 114 282 5312 PO Box 544 Rotherham S60 1BY United Kingdom enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk originator Marine Scotland +44 (0)300 244 4000 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot originator Natural Resources Wales +44 (0)300 065 3000 c/o Customer Care Centre,Ty Cambria, 29 Newport Rd Cardiff CF24 0TP United Kingdom enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk originator Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Inverdee  FFMarineScience@sepa.org.uk originator British Oceanographic Data Centre +44 (0) 782 512 0946 Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk originator Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) 0300 200 7852 Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3SB United Kingdom daera.helpline@daera-ni.gov.uk originator Not Planned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Bioassay and contaminant biological impact Concentration of other organic contaminants in biota Concentration of other organic contaminants in sediment samples Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in biota Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in sediment samples Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in biota Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment samples Metal concentrations in biota SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2018-12-12 revision Metal and metalloid concentrations SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups 2017-05-03 revision Contaminants do not produce pollution effects Marine Strategy Framework Directive descriptors 2017-02-25 revision The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. otherRestrictions no limitations to public access 200.00 eng environment -9.998528 3.399998 48.16774 62.35925 SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision The unlithified sediments (of any grain size from silt to boulders) that form a layer between the solid crust and either the atmosphere or the water column. SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision The entire body of water between the bed and the atmosphere. 1999-01-01 2017-12-31 https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12227-1 DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12227-1 https://doi.org/10.7489/12227-1 download https://doi.org/10.7489/12227-1 download https://doi.org/10.7489/12227-1 download https://doi.org.10.7489/12227-1 download https://doi.org/10.7489/12227-1 download dataset Data are submitted to the MERMAN database from relevant Competent Monitoring Authorities. A series of templates are populated by submitting officers and submitted to the database which has in-built data restrictions and a data filter to ensure high quality, accurate data are submitted. The data filter has formulae in-built which use Accredited Quality Control information from known standards, limits, standard deviations and/or inter laboratory calibration exercises to calculate a score. Only data that pass a threshold agreed with the national advisory bodies are used for assessments. The data for 1999 - 2017 were extracted from MERMAN on 27 June 2019. Further data checks were made and records with obvious errors were deleted or corrected. The concentration and biological effects data were standardised to agreed units and bases and, in the case of sediment, were normalised to 5% aluminium (metals) and 2.5% organic carbon (organics). The data were grouped into time series, typically of a single contaminant in a single species at a single monitoring station. Time series with no data for the period 2012 - 2017 were excluded. The data archived here are those for selected metals, polycyclic aromatic hyrdocarbons, polychlorobiphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, tributyltin and its derivatives, imposex (VDS), ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD), bile metabolites and other biological effects measurements. The methods used to assess the individual time series and synthesise the results at a regional level can be found at https://www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/data_management/uk/merman/assessments_and_data_access/csemp/. The results for the most recent CSEMP assessment can be found at the same location (if the extraction date at the top of the assessment application is later than 27 June 2019, the assessment has been updated).