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Marine fish volunteer ad-hoc recording scheme and historical records from around the United Kingdom between 1743 and 2010
Citation
The National Marine Aquarium, United Kingdom (2019) Marine fish volunteer ad-hoc recording scheme and historical records from around the United Kingdom between 1743 and 2010 https://doi.org/10.17031/2x2hau
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
"Volunteer marine fish records from a wide variety of sources including dive sightings, fishermen's records, anglers etc. as well as historical records collated from other sources such as museum specimens and marine faunas from 1743 - 2010. Records are from around the United Kingdom and some further reaching locations submitted to and collected by The National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth. "
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthic marine fish, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Citizen science, Data, Demersal fishes, diver, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine Genomics, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Pelagic fishes, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, France, ANE, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Pisces
Geographical coverage
ANE, France Stations [Marine Regions]
french
ANE, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -16,8667; MinLat: 32,7354 - MaxLong: 15,0719; MaxLat: 68,9116 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1743 - 2010
Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributors
National Marine Aquarium, data creator
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Release date: 2019-05-08
Metadatarecord created: 2017-06-27
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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