Identification

Title

1982 Ayres, PA. Plankton blooms of economic importance to fisheries in UK waters 1968-1982

Abstract

Three phytoplankton species blooms which have been reported harmful to fisheries in UK waters are discussed: (1) The armoured dinoflagellate Gonyaulax tamarensis has caused harmful levels to humans of paralytic shellfish poison in most years since 1968 in shellfish from sites on the British east coast between 54.5°N and 56.7°N. The months of maximum toxicity are May and June. (2) Red tides of the naked dinoflagellate Gyrodinium aureolum have caused mortalities of wild marine animals in south-west England in 1978 and in North Wales in 1971, and killed farmed salmon in the west of Scotland in 1980. These red tides occurred between August and October. The dinoflagellate occurs all along the west coast of Britain and is often abundant at fronts. (3) Blooms of 'flagellate X', possibly a species of Olisthodiscus or Chattonella, have killed farmed fish in sea-lochs on the west coast of Scotland in 1979 and 1982.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.dassh.ac.uk/datasets/DASSHDT00000147

description: A link to the web service or dataset

http://www.dassh.ac.uk

name: DASSH homepage

description: A link to the general host site

Unique resource identifier

code

DASSHDT00000147

codeSpace

http://www.dassh.ac.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

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

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2008-01-06

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2011-07-06

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009-11-16

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.3709

East bounding longitude

-4.9480

North bounding latitude

56.2662

South bounding latitude

55.9569

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-06-18

code identifying the extent

Irish Sea

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1979-01-01

End position

1982-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-02-19

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Part of MSFD NNS baseline data collation project (Jan 2016). Subset of a dataset as we were only pulling out records for a selection of INNS. Contains records for Heterosigma akashiwo. If any sensitive species or biotope records are present within this dataset, they will have been removed. If you wish to request access to sensitive species records, please contact the metadata contact. The UK Sensitive Species list has been agreed by UK statutory bodies and relevant experts. It can be viewed here https://docs.nbnatlas.org/sensitive-species-list/. Please note sensitive species lists can vary across the UK. See 'Plankton blooms of economic importance to fisheries in UK waters 1968-1982. ICES CM, 50, 38.' for original data source.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

CC BY 4.0

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

DASSH terms and conditions apply

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Unknown

organisation name

No organisation

email address

dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH)

full postal address

Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill

Plymouth

PL1 2PB

telephone number

01752 633102

facsimile number

01752 633291

email address

dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data

email address

matarn@mba.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-03-03

Metadata language