6e01cd82-d281-4b8c-9e10-ebfc2fd621c1 English series series 2026-07-03T11:44:46 MEDIN 3.1.2 biota economy environment oceans Fishing by-catch SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Fish taxonomy-related counts SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Fishery characterisation SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Habitat characterisation SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 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 Population distribution - demography 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 water column 2008-05-06T00:00:00 2008-05-08T00:00:00 -3.2224 -3.1464 53.4705 53.5031 TCE-187 Marine Data Exchange 2008, CMACS, Burbo Bank, Year 1 Commercial Fish Survey Year 1 Commercial Fish Survey 2021-05-17T13:32:04 publication English The report in this series presents results of the 2008 4m beam trawl (‘commercial fish survey’) at Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm. The survey contributes to a programme of environmental monitoring at the site designed in response to conditions of the Food and Environment Protection Act (FEPA) Licence issued to the developer. The 2008 survey provides the third set of annual 4m beam trawl survey data designed to sample demersal fish present in and around the wind farm and at reference sites. This was the first survey during the operational phase of the wind farm and results have been compared with pre-construction (baseline) and during-construction surveys in preceding years. The 4m trawl surveys have detected no major impact of wind farm construction and initial period of operation on the distribution of fish locally. This is concluded based on high levels of similarity between catches pre, during and post-construction across sites and is consistent with the project Environmental Impact Assessment which did not anticipate major effects. There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange otherRestrictions Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use otherRestrictions The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk custodian Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Ltd (CMACS) +44 1516 502 275 info@cmacsltd.co.uk originator The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk distributor Orsted info@orsted.com owner notPlanned Documents https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-187/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 The survey was carried out over 3 days from 6th to 8th May 2008 aboard the fishing vessel ‘Admiral Grenville’ (Figure 1) operating out of the East Canada Dock in Liverpool. The survey was carried out using twin 4m commercial beam trawls (Figure 2) with 80mm mesh cod-end and a chain matrix between the beam and footrope. Trawling was carried out over a distance of approximately 2km (30 minutes) over the ground at a speed (c. 3 knots) deemed to be efficient for the capture of fish and in keeping with the previous methodology of the 2006 and 2007 surveys. Once the trawl distance had been completed and the gear retrieved to deck, the contents of the cod-ends of each trawl were emptied into port and starboard bins, where any sediment could be washed off. One at a time, these bins were tilted so that the contents poured gradually onto a conveyor belt, which ran into the whale-back on the bow of the vessel where the contents of the trawl could be sorted on a second conveyor belt. Discards of the trawls dropped into a chute at the end of the second conveyor belt that emptied at sea-level. The port trawl was used in all of the trawls except trawl 1 as the port net had a large hole in it. Each trawl and any species of interest were photographed (see Appendix 4). As the catch passed along the conveyor in the whale-back (Figure 4), all fish were sorted from the trawl contents by the onboard CMACS representatives (experienced Marine Biologists). Benthic epifauna were not considered in this survey and were returned to sea via the chute previously described. The fish from each trawl were photographed in boxes and then counted, all commercial fish species with the addition of dab Limanda limanda were measured, elasmobranchs were sexed and measured. ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd 02380711840 enquiries@abpmer.co.uk pointOfContact EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-11-29 revision WGS 84