Datasets

• Survey : CEND 13/09 (part of North West Groundfish Survey, Qtr 3 (FSS: NWGFS))

  This survey was undertaken by Cefas as part of the North West Groundfish Survey, Qtr 3 (FSS: NWGFS); Station, catch, length (all species) and biological data (selected species)...

• Survey : CORY 8/91 (part of English Channel Beam Trawl Survey (VIId and...

  This survey was undertaken by Cefas as part of the English Channel Beam Trawl Survey (VIId and IVc), Qtr 3 (FSS: BTS7D); Station, catch, length (all species) and biological data...

• Western Channel sole and plaice beam trawl survey 2021

  The main aim of the Western Channel sole and plaice survey is to show trends in the distribution, abundance and age composition of sole (Solea solea) and plaice (Pleuronectes...

• Survey : CORE/03/1973 (part of CEFAS Historic surveys)

  This survey was undertaken by Cefas as part of the CEFAS Historic surveys; Station and biological data collected during research surveys carried out by Cefas (formerly...

• Biological-based habitat classification approaches promote cost-efficient...

  Files for use with the R script accompanying the paper Cooper et al. (2019). Note that this script also uses files from https://doi.org/10.14466/CefasDataHub.34_ (details...

• Highly mobile fish species distributions in UK waters

  Distribution shapefiles of highly mobile species, derived from BS Sample, BSFSM, FSS and data mining and the Environment Agency.

• Survey : TELL/08B/1969 (part of CEFAS Historic surveys)

  This survey was undertaken by Cefas as part of the CEFAS Historic surveys; Station and biological data collected during research surveys carried out by Cefas (formerly...

• Mesozooplankton abundance in the Bristol Channel, Celtic Sea and English...

  Mesozooplankton abundance data gathered as part of an annual autumn pelagic survey in the English Channel, Celtic Sea and Bristol Channel, running from 2012-2016. Samples were...

• Dissolved oxygen profiles from sediment cores collected in the North Sea...

  These sample data are from sediment cores collected in the North Sea and the Celtic Seas on three surveys undertaken between 2023 and 2024 using a NIOZ (Royal Netherlands...

• Survey : TELL/03/1960 (part of CEFAS Historic surveys)

  This survey was undertaken by Cefas as part of the CEFAS Historic surveys; Station and biological data collected during research surveys carried out by Cefas (formerly...

• Survey : GEBL/N/1927 (part of CEFAS Historic surveys)

  This survey was undertaken by Cefas as part of the CEFAS Historic surveys; Station and biological data collected during research surveys carried out by Cefas (formerly...

• Metabarcoding of pond environmental DNA samples towards development of...

  Metabarcoding of pond environmental DNA samples towards development of DNA-based metrics for the assessment of pond condition. This project processed and sequenced water samples...

• English Channel / Southern Bight Plankton Survey - RV Corella 09/71

  Analysis of plankton samples collected in the Eastern Channel and Southern Bight. Dataset consists mainly of numbers of fish eggs and larvae along with associated positional...

• Catalogue of Defra Historical Catch and Effort Charts: Six Decades of...

  PDFs of unpublished historical 'Statistical Charts' held at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Lowestoft, UK. These charts provide annual and...

• 2000 Hastings Shingle Bank Crab Depletion Study

  The feasibility of using catch depletion methodologies as a way of assessing edible crab (Cancer pagurus) stocks was investigated on the Hastings Shingle Bank commercial...

• Macrobenthos Data from Shoreham, the Tyne and the Thames Estuaries, UK, 2000 to 2006

  These data describe counts of macrobenthic infauna (with associated station metadata) taken from sediment samples collected at sites in the Tyne, Thames and Shoreham, UK from...

• Glaven and Stiffkey Estuarine and Coastal Investigation - Microbiological analysis

  As part of contract C7260, 55 samples of freshwater and seawater were collected at sites in the Stiffkey and Glaven catchments and in Blakeney Harbour in the winter of...

• Seafloor Marine Litter from UK EEZ zones between 2012 and 2017

  This data set was used to assess the density of litter in the seafloor for the MSFD indicator assessment that was completed in 2018 and published in 2019 at...

• Hydrological sections for England, Scotland and Wales with associated river...

  This dataset consists of hydrologically defined sections (polygons) for the whole of Great Britain including river channels and coastal areas up to the mean high water line for...

• 1979 Eastern Irish Sea Groundfish Survey Catch Data - Silver Star Time Series

  A series of groundfish surveys were carried out on the fishing vessel Silver Star from 1976 to 1991 in the eastern Irish Sea. Fishing took place using a Boris Goshawk trawl...