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mackerel_vliz: Assessing Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) spatial distribution in the Belgian North Sea with acoustic telemetry and data storage tags
Citation
Casals, D., Pohl, L., Conings, B., Reubens, J. (2025): Assessing Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) spatial distribution in the Belgian North Sea with acoustic telemetry and data storage tags. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8889

Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2029-12-30

Description

Tracking Atlantic Mackerel (Scomber scombrus) using acoustic telemetry and archival tags in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS) in the frame of NorTrack and DTO-Track projects.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Fish, Biology > Nekton, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings, Physical > Underwater acoustics
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic devices · Acoustic receivers · Acoustic tags · Acoustic Tags · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Animal movement · Animal Project · Animal tracking · Archival Data · Data storage tags · Ecological distribution · Fish movement · Live fish movement · Movement ecology · Spatial distribution · Tracking data · Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone · Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2024 - 2027

Target species
Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatorprincipal investigator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more

Project
DTOTrack: Digital Twin of the Ocean - Animal Tracking, more
Funding BELSPO
Grant agreement ID IM/RT/24/DTO-TRACK
NorTrack: Northeast Atlantic Marine Tracking Network, more
Funding Horizon Europe

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2025-08-04
Information last updated: 2025-08-04
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