Identification

Title

Utility and government services - UK fishing intensity associated with oil and gas pipelines (2007-2015)

Abstract

The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables. Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline for four gear categories (see Rouse et al 2017). Fishing tracks were recreated for UK vessels greater than 15 m in length between 2007-2015 operating mobile demersal gear (otter trawls, pair trawls, beam trawlers and dredges) using vessel position data extracted from the Vessel Monitoring System. The layers can be used to aid the pipeline decommissioning process, including assessing the potential impacts and risks of different decommissioning options to commercial fisheries and informing the frequency of post-decommissioning monitoring according to level of fisheries interaction. The layers can also inform risk modelling for operational pipelines.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/3972175/Commercial-fisheries-interactions-with-oil-and-gas

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: ICES Journal of Marine Science: ICES J Mar Sci fsx121

description: Scientific Paper: Commercial fisheries interactions with oil and gas pipelines in the North Sea: considerations for decommissioning.

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears

description: utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

name: utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears

description: utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:4326

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: utility_and_government_services_fishing_intensity_pipelines_all_gears

description: Download data via WFS as zipped shapefile on WGS1984 datum. (Each year is a separate polygon)

https://doi.org/10.7489/1972-2

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Marine Scotland Data DOI

description: Alternative download option (years as fields), supplementary information and ESRI layer styles from Marine Scotland Data.

Unique resource identifier

code

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1972

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

WGS84

Additional information source

Sally Rouse, Andronikos Kafas, Rui Catarino, Hayes Peter, Handling editor: Steven Degraer; Commercial fisheries interactions with oil and gas pipelines in the North Sea: considerations for decommissioning. ICES J Mar Sci 2017 fsx121. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx121

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2008-05-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-10-23

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011-03-25

Keyword set

keyword value

Utility and governmental services

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-13.88672

East bounding longitude

9.228516

North bounding latitude

61.73153

South bounding latitude

47.87214

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-01

code identifying the extent

The entire body of water between the bed and the atmosphere.

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-04-01

End position

2017-03-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-07-19

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

The layers were created following the methodology of Rouse et al. (2017) ‘Commercial fisheries interactions with North Sea pipelines: considerations for decommissioning’ ICES Journal of Marine Science (https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/3972175/Commercial-fisheries-interactions-with-oil-and-gas). VMS position data were filtered by speed to distinguish fishing from steaming points. Fishing points were interpolated into tracks, accounting for the speed and heading of the vessel, to obtain a greater spatial resolution of fishing activity. Each pipeline was divided into 1 km sections. The total number of fishing tracks, extending 500 m either side of the pipeline, was calculated for each 1 km section according to four gear categories: dredging, nephrops (otter and pair trawls), demersal (otter, pair and beam trawls), and all mobile demersal gear.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

no limitations to public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road

Aberdeen

AB11 9DB

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)1224 876 544

email address

marinescotland@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road

Aberdeen

AB11 9DB

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)1224 876 544

email address

marinescotland@gov.scot

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road

Aberdeen

AB11 9DB

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)1224 876 544

email address

marinescotland@gov.scot

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Scottish Government

telephone number

+44 (0)1224 876 544

email address

marinescotland@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-02-14

Metadata language