The Plymouth Marine Laboratory Bristol Channel Project - Zooplankton and fish taxonomy and abundance
Citation
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (2025). The Plymouth Marine Laboratory Bristol Channel Project - Zooplankton and fish taxonomy and abundance. British Oceanographic Data Centre. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8799
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Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
The dataset comprises plankton and fish abundance data, as well as fish length data. The data were collected from the Bristol Channel, Severn Estuary, Celtic Sea and Plymouth Sound between 1971 and 1978. Measurements were taken over a series of 50 cruises. The most intensive sampling took place before 1975. The original data were collated and stored at Institute for Marine Environmental Research (IMER), which became Plymouth Marine Laboratory in 1988. As this is a large and important data set, which was previously held in an inaccessible format, it was selected for long-term archival at BODC as part of the NERC SEEDCORN programme. 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, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton Keywords: Marine/Coastal · ANE, British Isles, Bristol Channel · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Edward Forbes [EurOBIS harvested data] · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Jane [EurOBIS harvested data] · John Murray [EurOBIS harvested data] · Local · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Shackleton [EurOBIS harvested data] · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Bristol Channel Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -6,3417; MinLat: 50,6633 - MaxLong: -2,2717; MaxLat: 52,1217 [WGS84] Bristol Channel [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
27 July 1971 - 25 January 1978 Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Area of sample collector (aperture) {mouth area} [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Length of sampling track [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Contributors
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Project
DTO - BioFlow: Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean, more
Funding Horizon Europe
Grant agreement ID 101112823
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Dataset information: Other: Data type: Data
Release date: 2025-02-24
Metadatarecord created: 2025-04-02
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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