24f15a257476577e8c2cba21793e9737 eng series Centrica Renewable Energy Limited GIS and Data Manager 01753 492188 Millstream East 1st Floor Maidenhead Road Windsor Berkshire SL4 5GD United Kingdom renewables@centrica.com www.centrica.com pointOfContact 2007-11-23 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.5 2006, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd. (CMACS), Desk Based Review of Fish Communities of the Wash 2006-04-03 publication 2006 creation 1188 http://data.offshorewind.co.uk/ This series focuses on the fish species likely to be present within the Wash and which would therefore be subject to assessment for impacts from installation and operation of the wind farm export power cable. In addition, the presence of any important fish habitats such as spawning and nursery areas has also been identified along with any rare or protected fish species which may be found within the area. It was initially decided to undertake a series of detailed beam and otter trawls within the Wash to inform the Environment Impact Assessment. However, this was deemed as being too intrusive to the Wash Special Area of Conservation (SAC) by English Nature (EN). EN advised reviewing the available data for biological fish communities of the Wash in the first instance, and in particular, the long-term data set held by CEFAS for young fish surveys. EN further advised that data collection should only be considered if the existing data highlighted significant data gaps. It was therefore decided that this investigation would be entirely desk based drawing upon data from a variety of sources including the existing CEFAS young fish survey beam trawl data. It was found that the dominant species present were as expected for an area where the predominant habitat type is shallow sand substrates although the data was skewed towards demersal species due to the type of gear used for the CEFAS surveys. The distribution of fish species varies significantly on a small-scale basis over small time periods although a number of species also show distinct seasonal movements. Centrica Renewable Energy Limited GIS and Data Manager 01753 492188 Millstream East 1st Floor Maidenhead Road Windsor Berkshire SL4 5GD United Kingdom renewables@centrica.com www.centrica.com custodian Centrica Renewable Energy Limited GIS and Data Manager 01753 492188 Millstream East 1st Floor Maidenhead Road Windsor Berkshire SL4 5GD United Kingdom renewables@centrica.com www.centrica.com originator notPlanned PDF Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Metadata record availability 2012-01-11T07:46:54 revision Consenting The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15T02:00:03 revision Offshore Cable Corridor The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Fish abundance in water bodies SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2013-08-02 revision 76 Agreement for Lease Area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Habitat characterisation SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2018-12-12 revision 110 no conditions apply eng biota environment 0.447657201555526 0.895512257392733 53.1336856855061 53.3347453214837 2006-04 2006-04 Origin: CMACS Ltd dataset The Centre for Marine & Coastal Studies (CMACS) Ltd was commissioned by RES to investigate the fish species of the Wash to inform an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a proposed cable route from the proposed Lincs, Docking Shoal and Race bank Offshore Wind Farm through the Wash Estuary to a landfall location just east of the River Nene on the Lincolnshire coastline. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/902/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site.