Identification

Title

2019 - 2019 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Exploring the potential to record species specific monkfish 2019/20 - Fisheries Science Partnership

Alternative title(s)

FSP Report 62 Monkfish data collection 2019/2020

Abstract

This work was carried out as part of the Fisheries Science Partnership (FSP) programme. Commercial landings of monkfish into UK ports consist of the two species, *Lophius piscatorius* and *Lophius budegassa* , mixed together. As there is no EU or UK requirement to report, land, or market the two species separately, this places a limit on the quantity of data that can be generated on catch distributions and size composition for the individual species, with the result that stock assessments are weakened, and management advice for monkfish issued by ICES is precautionary. This project looked at the possibility of introducing changes to normal working practices of the fishing industry in SW England that would improve the data available for the individual species. As part of completing electronic logbooks participating vessels recorded the total weight of monkfish caught on a daily basis together with ICES Rectangle fished.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.cefas.co.uk/#/View/20924/

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

CEFASdfec8d93-9eaa-4cee-a98c-1a62e480155b

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

-4.5

North bounding latitude

50.25

South bounding latitude

49.5

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

2019-09-05T23:00:00.000Z

End position

2019-11-07T00:00:00.000Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-12-18

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Two Newlyn-based beam trawlers took part in a trial, completing a total of 10 fishing trips between September and November 2019 during which the two monkfish species were sorted and landed separately. The landings were sampled on three occasions to validate the accuracy of species identification, which ranged from 87% to 100%. Combined with feedback from fishing crews, this showed that sorting at sea was possible.

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

2020-12-18T06:22:23

Metadata language