Identification

Title

1870 - 1883 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Digitised Fish Spawning Distribution Adapted from the Olsen 1883 Piscitorial Atlas

Abstract

The dataset is a collection of Geographic Information System (GIS) shapefiles showing the general distribution and spawning distribution of 14 fish species selected from the 46 maps in the Olsen atlas based on their relevance to the present day spawning datasets and commercial relevance: cod, haddock, herring, lemon sole, mackerel, plaice, sole, whiting, skate, thornback ray, ling, horse mackerel, hake and sprat (general distribution only). The majority of the Olsen (1883) maps were for species either no longer considered in a large commercial capacity in UK waters (e.g. anchovy, garfish, tusk etc.) and/or had no comparative present day dataset available (e.g. mussels, turbot etc.). The data complements the present day fish spawning datasets - Coull et al 1998, Ellis et al 2012 and Marine Scotland 2014.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.cefas.co.uk/#/View/10006/

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

CEFAS460477E2-BCF8-4069-A640-51E55DB892EE

codeSpace

http://www.cefas.co.uk/

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011-03-25

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7

East bounding longitude

10

North bounding latitude

60.5

South bounding latitude

49

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-05-18

code identifying the extent

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1870-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

End position

1883-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-05-27

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

In the early 1870s, Olsen created a simple questionnaire which was distributed to fishermen in Grimsby and Hull, England. He requested information on location, tides, tack, and weather; quantity and description of fish; and description of bycatch. After gathering this data for almost a decade, in 1883 Olsen published the “Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels”. The atlas illustrates the fishing ports, boats, gear, species of fish (how, where, and when caught) and other information concerning fish and fisheries). The National Library for Scotland, Edinburgh provided scanned copies of the requested maps in jpeg format. Of the 14 maps selected, the sprat map was subsequently discarded, as it was not possible to distinguish between the general distribution and spawning areas on the scanned version.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Public data (Crown Copyright) - Open Government Licence Terms and Conditions apply

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Public data (Crown Copyright) - Open Government Licence Terms and Conditions apply

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

full postal address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)1502 562244

email address

data.manager@cefas.co.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

full postal address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)1502 562244

email address

data.manager@cefas.co.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

full postal address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)1502 562244

email address

data.manager@cefas.co.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-10-08T13:26:15

Metadata language