Monitoring of fish in the Voordelta
Citation
Borst, J.C.;Stolte, W.; van der Kamp, P.; Rijkswaterstaat (RWS); Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (HbR); Deltares; Imares; (2016): Monitoring of fish in the Voordelta. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/4660
Contact:
Stolte, Willem Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
Port of Rotterdam is carrying out the Project Mainport Development Rotterdam, PMR, expanding the port with 1,000 hectares through suppletion of sand in the shallow coastal Voordelta area in the North Sea. As the Voordelta has the status of protected nature reserve (Natura2000 area), the loss of habitat, caused by the expansion of the port, must be compensated for. As part of the compensating measures, the Dutch national government established a series of protected areas in the Voordelta region and is following the effects of these measures.
This dataset contains abundances and biomasses of fish in the “Voordelta”. The set exists of a pre-protected status data (2003 – 2007) and a post-protected status (currently still under embargo). more
Fish were caught both using a fine mesh- shrimp trawl, which was pulled for 15 minutes at a speed of 2-3 knots. The research vessel (the Luctor) followed the depth contourlines during each transect as to maintain a constant fisshing dept. Some of the data from 2005 were caught by the commercial fisshing vessel the GO58. In 2005 fykes were used to capture migratory fish. 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 · fishing vessel · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Luctor · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · research vessel · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Voordelta · Pisces Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 3,3544; MinLat: 51,5758 - MaxLong: 4,0817; MaxLat: 51,9917 [WGS84] Voordelta [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
2004 - 2011 20 October 2004 - 7 September 2007 (EurOBIS harvested data) Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Parameters
Abundance Biomass Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Direction (from) of wind relative to True North {wind direction} in the atmosphere [BODC] Fish length Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Speed of wind {wind speed} in the atmosphere [BODC] Stomach fullness of fish Visibility in the water body by Secchi disk [BODC] Contributors
Deltares, more, data creator
Wageningen University and Research Centre; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), more, data creator
Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat; Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), more, data creator
Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (GHR), more, data creator, sponsor
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Publication
Based on this dataset
Tulp, I.Y.M. et al. (2012). PMR Monitoring natuurcompensatie Voordelta. Perceel Vis: Jaarrapport 2010. IMARES Wageningen Report, C029/12. IMARES Wageningen UR: IJmuiden. 86 pp., more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2016-06-03
Metadatarecord created: 2014-10-15
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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