Utility and government services - UK fishing intensity associated with oil and gas pipelines (2007-2015)

The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables.

Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline for four gear categories (see Rouse et al 2017). Fishing tracks were recreated for UK vessels greater than 15 m in length between 2007-2015 operating mobile demersal gear (otter trawls, pair trawls, beam trawlers and dredges) using vessel position data extracted from the Vessel Monitoring System.


The layers can be used to aid the pipeline decommissioning process, including assessing the potential impacts and risks of different decommissioning options to commercial fisheries and informing the frequency of post-decommissioning monitoring according to level of fisheries interaction. The layers can also inform risk modelling for operational pipelines.

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Date ()
2017-07-19
Identifier

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1972
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

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Edinburgh

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EH6 6QQ

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United Kingdom
+44 (0)1224 876 544
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

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Edinburgh

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EH6 6QQ

 ,

United Kingdom
+44 (0)1224 876 544
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

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Edinburgh

 ,

EH6 6QQ

 ,

United Kingdom
+44 (0)1224 876 544
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown
Keywords
SeaDatanet Parameter Disciplines
SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups
BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

  • Utility and governmental services
Access constraints
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Other constraints

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Use constraints
Open Government Licence
Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Distance
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Metadata language
eng (en)
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier

The entire body of water between the bed and the atmosphere.

Date ()
2010-01-01

Begin date
2016-04-01
End date
2017-03-31
Supplemental Information

Sally Rouse, Andronikos Kafas, Rui Catarino, Hayes Peter, Handling editor: Steven Degraer; Commercial fisheries interactions with oil and gas pipelines in the North Sea: considerations for decommissioning. ICES J Mar Sci 2017 fsx121. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx121
Reference system identifier

OGP

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WGS84
Distribution format
OnLine resource
ICES Journal of Marine Science: ICES J Mar Sci fsx121 (

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Scientific Paper: Commercial fisheries interactions with oil and gas pipelines in the North Sea: considerations for decommissioning.

OnLine resource
utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears (

OGC:WFS

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OnLine resource
utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

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OnLine resource
utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears (

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

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Download data via WFS as zipped shapefile on WGS1984 datum. (Each year is a separate polygon)

OnLine resource
Marine Scotland Data DOI (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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Alternative download option (years as fields), supplementary information and ESRI layer styles from Marine Scotland Data.

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GIS - - Shapefiles
Scope
dataset
Statement

The layers were created following the methodology of Rouse et al. (2017) ‘Commercial fisheries interactions with North Sea pipelines: considerations for decommissioning’ ICES Journal of Marine Science ( https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/3972175/Commercial-fisheries-interactions-with-oil-and-gas).


VMS position data were filtered by speed to distinguish fishing from steaming points. Fishing points were interpolated into tracks, accounting for the speed and heading of the vessel, to obtain a greater spatial resolution of fishing activity. Each pipeline was divided into 1 km sections. The total number of fishing tracks, extending 500 m either side of the pipeline, was calculated for each 1 km section according to four gear categories: dredging, nephrops (otter and pair trawls), demersal (otter, pair and beam trawls), and all mobile demersal gear.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1972
Metadata language
eng (en)
Resource Type
dataset
Date stamp
2023-09-12
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.2
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate
+44 (0)300 244 4000
 
 

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