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Fishing Statistics - Gridded fisheries data within Scottish waters for Scottish fishing vessels under 12m overall length - annual averages 2017 to 2021
Owners or masters of Scottish fishing vessels under 12m overall length must declare a latitude and longitude position (DD MM) on each fishing day indicating where the majority of the catch was taken. This data has been recorded since 2016 for vessels submitting Fish 1 forms and from 2018 onwards for vessels submitting paper logbooks.
This dataset aggregates the positions declared between 2017 and 2021, along with the associated catch weight and values, into C-Squares of 0.05 x 0.05 decimal degrees. The data is grouped into sectors of
"Pots and traps" - e.g. creels for crabs, lobsters, or Nephrops; whelk pots; or wrasse traps
"Bottom trawls" - e.g. bottom trawls for Nephrops, squid, or demersal fish
"Dredges" - e.g. dredging for bivalve molluscs such as scallops and surf clams
"Rod and lines"- e.g. handlines or jigging for mackerel; set lines for demersal fish
"Other" - e.g. set nets; diving; hand gathering etc
This data includes catches of razor clams up until 1st February 2018. Since this date, only vessels involved in the scientific trial can land razor clams. Data will be published on these vessels once the trial is complete.
Default
- Date ()
- 2022-12-22
- Identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12436_resource
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Keywords
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Fish and shellfish catch statistics
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Statistical units
- Use constraints
- Data is derived from positions self-declared by fishers. These positions have not been verified by other sources. The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Distance
- 1852 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Topic category
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- Economy
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- Geographic identifier
-
There is no appropriate value
- Date ()
- 2010-01-01
- Begin date
- 2017-01-01
- End date
- 2021-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
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1.0
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ESRI Shapefile
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1.0
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- OnLine resource
- fishing_under12_data ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )
- OnLine resource
- fishing_under12_data ( OGC:WFS )
- OnLine resource
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fishing_under12_data
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Download data as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum
- Scope
- dataset
- Statement
- Catch and sales data linked to the daily position was extracted from the Marine Scotland Compass database for the period 2017 to 2021 within a bounding box of -10W to 0E and 54N to 62N. Approximately 12% of total voyages either had no position or was outside of the bounding box. The positions were allocated to C-Squares of 0.05 x 0.05 decimal degrees. C-Squares that are entirely on land or outwith Scottish waters were excluded (approximately 4% of total voyages). The remaining data was aggregated. Where there are less than five vessels in a c-square, the values are redacted and coded as -999. Data is unavailable before 2016. 2016 data is incomplete and not included. Before 2018, Fish1 forms used a free text box for positions and positions may be of poorer quality.
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-05-10
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.2
