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SCOWCGFS: Scottish West Coast Groundfish Survey
Citation
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark; (2023): DATRAS Scottish West Coast Groundfish Survey (SCOWCGFS). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8233
Contact: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), more

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Licence
Conditions of supply and usage of the data are specified in a formal agreement.

Notes: ICES Data Policy: http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx

Description

The dataset includes age- and length-based catch per unit effort data for commercial fish species collected during the Scottish West Coast Bottom Trawl Survey. This is a new survey from 2011, replacing the historical DATRAS SWC-IBTS dataset.


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, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Bottom trawls, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Species distribution, Trawls, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, United Kingdom, Pisces, Teleostei

Geographical coverage
ANE, United Kingdom [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -10,628; MinLat: 54,25 - MaxLong: -4,009; MaxLat: 60,226 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
From 2011 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Teleostei [WoRMS]

Parameters
Age distribution
Catch per unit effort
Length

Contributors
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), moredata collector

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
DATRAS: ICES Database on Trawl Surveys
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Other relation:
SWC-IBTS: Scottish West Coast Bottom Trawl Survey


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2013-09-19
Metadatarecord created: 2023-03-17
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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