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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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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. "

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthic marine fish, Citizen science, Data, Demersal fishes, diver, Marine Genomics, Pelagic fishes, 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 Aquariumdata creator
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Metadatarecord created: 2017-06-27
Information last updated: 2022-08-03
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