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Reconstruction of North Sea trawling effort 1985-2015

Publisher
Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

Spatial distribution of total international otter and beam trawling fishing effort, for all ICES rectangles (0.5 degree latitude by 1 degree longitude) of the North Sea, covering a 31-year time span from 1985 to 2015. The dataset was largely reconstructed using compiled effort data from 7 fishing effort time-series and completed by estimations of missing data. Lat and Long coordinates in the data represent the centre of each ICES rectangle.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
29 July 2026
Harvest GUID
CEFAS824c845c-09b7-48b4-8b82-00f1f0e021b3
Extent (Latitude)
58.00° to 51.00°
Extent (Longitude)
-2.50° to 9.00°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2019-03-21
Dataset reference date (revision)
2026-07-29
Dataset reference date (creation)
2019-03-19
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) (originator, custodian, distributor); Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng