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Gridded abundance maps of commercial fish species from the North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); (2015):Gridded abundance maps of commercial fish species from the North Sea; European Marine Observation Data Network (EMODnet) Biology project (www.emodnet-biology.eu), funded by the European Commission’s Directorate - General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5456
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Description
Gridded abundance maps of commercial fish species. This product was developed with DIVA (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis). Data was provided by ICES (IBTS dataset - Fish trawl survey: ICES North Sea International Bottom Trawl Survey for commercial fish species. ICES Database of trawl surveys (DATRAS). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010. Online source: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk.). The maps show clearly the dramatic stock depletion of the last decades in the North Sea. Scale: log-transformed CPUE.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · ANE, North Sea · Biota · Coordinate reference systems · Data not evaluated · Geoscientific Information · Interpolated mapping · Metadata not evaluated · NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Regional · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · Ammodytes Linnaeus, 1758 · Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758 · Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 · Gouania willdenowi (Risso, 1810) · Gymnammodytes semisquamatus (Jourdain, 1879) · Hyperoplus Günther, 1862 · Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 · Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1980 - 2013

Taxonomic coverage
Ammodytes Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Gouania willdenowi (Risso, 1810) [WoRMS]
Gymnammodytes semisquamatus (Jourdain, 1879) [WoRMS]
Hyperoplus Günther, 1862 [WoRMS]
Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creator
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), moredata creator

Related datasets
Source dataset:
NS-IBTS: ICES North Sea International Bottom Trawl Survey for commercial fish species, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data products
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2016-10-07
Information last updated: 2024-12-04
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