Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12319
eng
dataset
Scottish Government (Marine Scotland)
+44 (0)300 244 4000
marinescotland@gov.scot
pointOfContact
2020-07-20
MEDIN Discovery Metadata
Version 2.3.7
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
OGP
Contaminant and biological effect data 1999-2018 for the 2019 CSEMP assessment
2020-07-20
publication
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12319
The 2019 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
Food Standards Scotland (FSS)
enquiries@fss.scot
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 sediment samples
Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in biota
Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment samples
Metal concentrations in biota
Metal concentrations in sediment
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
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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
2018-12-31
https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12319-1
DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12319-1
https://doi.org/10.7489/12319-1
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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 - 2018 were extracted from MERMAN on 30 April 2020. 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 2013 - 2018 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 30 April 2020, the assessment has been updated).