b7114ac9-b7a3-4b9c-b6a5-3f63f0e70422 English series series 2026-09-10T11:35:07 MEDIN 3.1.2 biota oceans Cetacean behaviour SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Seal behaviour SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Seal abundance SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Cetacean abundance SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2026-06-19 revision Consenting The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision Agreement for Lease Area The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2009-07-31 revision SeaDataNet sea areas 2012-11-07 revision English Channel SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision atmosphere SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2020-05-21 revision water column 2002-01-01T00:00:00 2002-10-31T00:00:00 1.18221415492963 1.26099093245853 51.7105268136316 51.7529100147345 TCE-492 Marine Data Exchange 2002, Caroline Weir, Gunfleet Sands 1 and 2, Marine Mammals Marine Mammals 2021-05-17T13:38:41 publication English Assessment of the marine mammals present at the site of the Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm. The Gunfleet Sands Marine Mammals report details the different species of marine mammals potentially foudn in the area of Gunfleet Sands. This study has been put together using a variety of literature and databases about Marine Mammals in the area of the Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm site. The impact on marine mammals of the construction, operation and eventual decommissioning of a wind farm at Gunfleet Sands has been shown to be very small, due to the general lack of marine mammal population inhabiting the area. Cetaceans are scarce within the region, and otters have not been shown to occur within the marine environment at all and seldom within the adjacent freshwater habitat at Clacton-on-Sea. Grey seals are also scarce within the region and have not established a breeding population in the Thames Estuary. Presentation type: digital representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also) Supply media: 002 Origin: Ketos Ecology 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 Caroline Weir Caroline Weir unknown originator The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk distributor Orsted info@orsted.com owner notPlanned Documents Geographic Information System https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/TCE-492/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 All of the organisations involved with collating information on marine mammals within UK waters, report the south-east coast of England (including Essex) as being rather poor in both the number of animals and the species diversity of marine mammals recorded. The majority of marine mammal records collected within the region correspond to the sailing season (summer) and the seabird passage season (spring and autumn) when more observers are watching the sea. The winter period is less sufficiently surveyed to draw many conclusions about marine mammal seasonal occurrence within the region. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) reports the region generally as being of very minor importance for marine mammals (Mark Tasker, pers. comm.), and recent aerial surveys of the greater Thames estuary region by the JNCC recorded no marine mammals (Andy Webb, pers. comm.). Data on cetaceans from the Sea Watch Foundation (SWF), and on pinnipeds from the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) generally support the notion that while marine mammals do occur within the region in small numbers, the Essex coast is of less importance to all species than many other areas of the UK Orsted info@orsted.com pointOfContact EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-11-29 revision WGS 84