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thornback_vliz: Movement ecology of thornback (Raja clavata) and blonde (Raja brachyura) rays in the Belgian North Sea
Citation
Reubens, J.,  Pohl, L., Buyse, J.,  Conings, B., Casals, D. (2025): Movement ecology of thornback (Raja clavata) and blonde (Raja brachyura) rays in the Belgian North Sea assessed through acoustic and archival tagging. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8891

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 Thornback and Blonde rays using acoustic telemetry and archival tags in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS) in the frame of NorTrack, DTO-Track and ELASMON projects.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Fish, Biology > Nekton, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic devices · Acoustic tags · Acoustic Tags · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Animal movement · Animal Project · Archival Data · Archival tags · Data storage tags · Fish movement · Live fish movement · Movement ecology · Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone · Raja brachyura Lafont, 1871 · Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2024 - 2027

Target species
Raja brachyura Lafont, 1871 [WoRMS]
Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moreprincipal investigatordata creator
Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek (ILVO), moredata creator

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
ELASMON: ELASMON: Toward an effective monitoring to protect elasmobranchs in the Belgian part of the North Sea, more
Funding European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
Grant agreement ID EMFAF
NorTrack: Northeast Atlantic Marine Tracking Network, more
Funding Horizon Europe

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