580a3677-3eb7-4181-a1e9-adbe0ecf3361 English series series 2026-02-17T11:33:00 MEDIN 3.1.2 biota geoscientificInformation oceans Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Fish abundance in water bodies SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Sediment grain size parameters SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2023-12-12 revision Post-Construction monitoring The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision Renewable Energy Lease area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision bathybenthic 2018-05-21T00:00:00 2018-09-14T23:59:59 -1.53 -1.27 55.1 55.24 TCE-71 Marine Data Exchange 2018, Natural Power, Blyth Demonstration Site, Benthic Monitoring - Array 2 Benthic Monitoring - Array 2 2021-11-10T16:29:41 publication English Annex 2 of the Marine Licence (L/2013/00303) specified that a post-construction monitoring programme including benthic ecology surveys must be undertaken, which must also include a survey for Annex 1 habitats. Post-construction surveys are required to assess any changes in the diversity and distribution of benthic ecology populations in and around the developed site and to provide monitoring of ecological effects of the development. In October 2017, the Post-Construction Benthic and Fish Survey Monitoring Plan (Document Number: BOD-101-04-NPC-MWL-00006-A-02) was agreed with the MMO. This document outlined the benthic and fish survey monitoring plan for post-construction surveys as per the Marine Licence. All surveys conducted were undertaken in line with the post-construction Benthic and Fish Survey Monitoring Plan. This purpose of the report in this series is to provide BODL with a comparison of the post-construction data with the EIA baseline and pre-construction characterisation of the benthic ecology present in and around the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Project. The document presents the findings of the benthic grab, epibenthic beam trawl and drop- down video (DDV) surveys, which were undertaken by Natural Power Consultants Ltd. An intertidal survey was also undertaken and reported on separately, this report is provided in Annex A. Once published, there will be no limitations on public access. Data must be used in accordance with the Marine Data Exchanges Terms of Use which can be found on the website. otherRestrictions Once published, there will be no constraints on public access. Data must be used in accordance with the Marine Data Exchanges Terms of Use which can be found on the website. otherRestrictions The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk custodian The Natural Power Consultants Limited +44 (0) 1661 312 100 unknown originator The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk distributor Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Limited MCC@edf-re.uk owner notPlanned Delimited https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-71/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. 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 2010-12-08T00:00:00 publication Conformity with the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 was either not relevant to this dataset or not a requirement of the Marine Data Exchange for the creation and submission of this dataset; therefore, conformity has not been assessed and cannot be declared False series Prior to any statistical analysis, all data were collated in Excel spreadsheets and made suitable for statistical analysis through the assignation of factors which included project phase and location as treatment groups. The names of species recorded during EIA characterisation were checked for any taxonomical changes on the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMs) database and amended. In order to undertake full and comprehensive statistical analysis between phases, species recorded as present were assigned an abundance value of one and species identified as juveniles remained as such for the analysis. Sampling stations surveyed in triplicate were treated as individual samples and were not aggregated. All data processing and statistical analysis was undertaken using Microsoft Excel and the statistical package Plymouth Routines In Marine Ecological Research (PRIMER) v6 (Clarke and Warwick, 2001). ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd 02380711840 enquiries@abpmer.co.uk pointOfContact EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-11-29 revision WGS 84