Datasets

• Cod Tagging in the North Thames Region 2009/10 - Fisheries Science Partnership

  The FV Harvester was chartered between February and March 2010 as part of the FSP North Thames cod tagging programme. The aim of the programme was to investigate spatial...

• North East nephrops gear selectivity 2004/05 - Fisheries Science Partnership

  An investigation into the potential for improving the selectivity for whitefish in the North Sea Nephrops fishery using a cut-away headline trawl. The main objectives were to...

• Cuttlefish Diversification (Inshore) 2011/12 - Fisheries Science Partnership

  To explore gear configurations that could improve selectivity in the current fishery and collect information on the catches, including associated species caught, that would help...

• North Wales Spurdog Longline Fishery 2008/09 - Fisheries Science Partnership

  To increase knowledge of the spatial and temporal dynamics of spurdog in waters off North Wales, to provide contemporary data on the reproductive parameters used in demographic...

• Eastern Channel cod 2006/07 - Fisheries Science Partnership

  To identify and map spawning aggregations of cod in the eastern English Channel and to tag the mature, spawning fish within these aggregations by conventional means. In...

• Spurdog, porbeagle and common skate by-catch and discard reduction 2011/12-...

  To collect field data on the numbers of elasmobranchs of conservation interest (porbeagle, common skate and spurdog) taken as by-catch in offshore gillnet fisheries and their...

• Bristol Channel 100mm codend trials 2010/11 - Fisheries Science Partnership

  This work was carried out as part of the Fisheries Science Partnership (FSP), a Defra-funded collaborative programme of scientific research between the UK fishing industry and...

• 2025 SMEEF (Kintyre Coastal Network) Seagrass Survey

  Seagrass Meadows Project seagrass survey carried out by Kintyre Coastal Network. Human-observed density measurements across transects lines using drop video from COAST Explorer...

• 2015 JNCC/Marine Directorate Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain Sublittoral...

  The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and Marine Scotland Science (MSS) undertook an offshore seabed survey of the Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain (NSP) Scottish...

• 2025 SMEEF (Namara) Seagrass Survey of Sound of Harris

  SMEEF-funded seagrass survey of Sound of Harris using drop-video and dived transects to produce taxonomic abundance counts and other seagrass-related metrics carried out by...

• Plankton Imager (Pi-10) Meta data collected on RV Cefas Endeavour

  Plankton Imager (Pi-10) data collected during RV Cefas Endeavour surveys. Data are images, separated by ten minute bins, and may be either unzipped, or zipped as tar files for...

• UK Disposal Site Layer

  A GIS Shapefile showing the extents of the Licenced Marine Disposal Sites for all of UK, including England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man....

• 2024 Mossy Earth NRF Seagrass Surveys

  Community-led surveys of Moray and Cromarty firths using the NatureScot Community Monitoring Handbook methodology 3.3 Feature Focus: Habitat Mapping. Funded by Nature...

• 2019 South Skye Seas Initiative Underwater marine life observation in Loch Scavaig

  Survey to detect seagrass presence or absence using BlueRov2 from survey boat. Water Linked Underwater GPS used; however GPS location determined from survey boat location as...

• 2023 University of Plymouth (UoP) Isles of Scilly BRUV and TUV Baseline Survey

  A new byelaw is expected to be passed which will close 43% of the Isles of Scilly district to bottom-towed fishing gear. The byelaw will allow permits to be distributed to up to...

• 2023 Skye Seas Survey Initiative Under water marine life observation at...

  Survey to revisit a previously identified seagrass bed.

• 2024 Seawilding/BSAC Great Seagrass Survey

  Habitat extent mapping and corresponding data of seagrass conducted by Seawildling and BSAC as part of the Great Seagrass Survey 2024 using combination of snorkel-based...

• Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change (MarClim) surveys in Scotland...

  The Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change Project (MarClim) is a UK and Ireland-wide project that periodically monitors and reports on the biogeographical distributions of...

• 2023 Mossy Earth and Moray Ocean Community Seagrass Surveys

  Community-led surveys of Beauly and Moray firths using the NatureScot Community Monitoring Handbook methodology 3.3 Feature Focus: Habitat Mapping

• 2010 Scottish Natural heritage survey of Didemnum vexillum and other...

  The aim of this survey was to determine the presence or absence of the invasive marine non-native D. vexillum on the south-west coast of Scotland. The first survey involved a...