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HMAP Dataset 12: North-west Scotland Fisheries
Citation
C. Pita and G. Pierce, 'HMAP Dataset 12: North-west Scotland Fisheries', in J.H. Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3149
Contact: Pita, Cristina ; Pierce, Graham ; Nicholls, John

Access data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset contains catch data from West Scotland for herring, haddock and Norway lobster. The data covers the time period from 1893 to 2005.

Scope
Themes:
Fisheries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Fishery statistics, Historical records, ANE, Celtic-Biscay Shelf, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Pisces

Geographical coverage
ANE, Celtic-Biscay Shelf [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 5,55; MinLat: 57,3 - MaxLong: 5,55; MaxLat: 57,3 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1893 - 2005

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
University of Aberdeen; School of Biological Sciencesdata creatordata provider
Pita, Cristina
Pierce, Graham
The University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)data manager
Nicholls, John

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OPI: Oceans Past Initiative
(Partly) included in:
HMAP: History of marine animal populations database, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-02
Information last updated: 2020-02-20
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