ICATMAR bottom trawl survey data in the NW Mediterranean (commercial and bycatch species)
Citation
Ribera-Altimir, J., Martí-Comas, A., Puig-Capdevila, A., Santos-Bethencourt, R., Rojas-Garcia, A., Balcells-Surroca, M. (2026). ICATMAR bottom trawl survey data in the NW Mediterranean (commercial and bycatch species). www.icatmar.cat. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/9017
Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset contains standardized abundance (individuals/km²) and biomass (kg/km²) data for marine demersal species collected through commercial bottom trawl surveys conducted by ICATMAR (Institut Català de Recerca per a la Governança del Mar) along the Catalan coast as part of the fisheries monitoring program. 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 > Demersal fish Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Bottom trawling · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Information systems · Mediterranean sea · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Spanish part of the Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · Pisces Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 0,6624; MinLat: 40,3241 - MaxLong: 3,6157; MaxLat: 42,3951 [WGS84] Spanish part of the Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
16 January 2019 - 18 December 2024 Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Sample duration [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Size of sample collector (mesh) {mesh size} [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Related datasets
Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2026-02-03
Metadatarecord created: 2026-02-05
Information last updated: 2026-04-27
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