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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, 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, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, 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), more, data collector
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
DATRAS: ICES Database on Trawl Surveys, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Other relation:
SWC-IBTS: Scottish West Coast Bottom Trawl Survey, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
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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