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Groundfish Survey Invertebrate Data
Citation
Marine Institute (2003); Groundfish Survey Invertebrate Data,. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/6449
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Description
The Irish Groundfish Surveys is part of an annual International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) programme co-ordinated by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The survey is carried out over 47 days between October-December each year by the Marine Institute and collects demersal trawl and ancillary data in Irish waters to produce relative abundance indices for fisheries management in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf waters. more

In addition to the commercially exploited fish, elasmobranch, cephalopod and crustacean species, and an amount of macroinvertebrate species are also caught. These are sampled in a similar way to the groundfish, identified by species (or higher taxa where not practical to ID at sea), and total weight as well as counts are recorded where possible. An internal review of this data was undertaken in 2019 to check for spatial and temporal consistency in abundance and taxonomy with the standardised data set being made available here.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Fishery surveys, International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS), Trawls, ANE: Ireland, Irish Exclusive Economic Zone, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Cephalopoda, Crustacea, , ,

Geographical coverage
ANE: Ireland, Irish Exclusive Economic Zone
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -12,3235; MinLat: 48,483 - MaxLong: -5,2595; MaxLat: 56,467 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
2003 - 2019

Taxonomic coverage
Cephalopoda [WoRMS]
Crustacea [WoRMS]
Elasmobranchia
Elasmobranchia
Macro-invertebrata

Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Wet weight biomass (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]

Contributors
Marine Institute Ireland (MI), moredata creatordata owner

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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2020-04-28
Information last updated: 2020-05-05
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