Identification

Title

2008-2009 Guy and Roberts Strangford Lough Crassostrea records

Abstract

The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) was introduced into Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It was assumed that local environmental conditions would not facilitate successful reproduction. However, in the 1990s there were reports of C. gigas outside licensed aquaculture sites and this investigation set out to ascertain the current distribution, years of likely recruitment and population structure of the species. C. gigas were found distributed widely throughout the northern basin during surveys; the frequency distribution suggesting C. gigas is not recruiting every year. Establishment of feral populations of C. gigas elsewhere have linked to habitat change. A pilot cull was initiated to assess the success rate of early intervention. This paper demonstrates the potential benefits of responding rapidly to initial reports of non-native species in a way that may curtail establishment and expansion. The method advocated in simple and can be recommended to the appropriate regulatory authorities.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.dassh.ac.uk

name: DASSH website

description: A link to the general host site

Unique resource identifier

code

DASSHDT00000213

codeSpace

http://www.dassh.ac.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

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

Additional information source

Guy, C. and Roberts, D., 2010. Can the spread of non-native oysters (Crassostrea gigas) at the early stages of population expansion be managed?. Marine pollution bulletin, 60(7), pp.1059-1064.

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

revision

effective date

2009-11-16

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2011-07-06

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.7677

East bounding longitude

-5.4725

North bounding latitude

54.5983

South bounding latitude

54.3085

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

2008-01-01

End position

2009-03-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-07-15

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 Crassostrea. 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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2012-12-19

degree

true

explanation

Data is in a pro forma provided by DASSH

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

Ecologist

organisation name

Queen's University Belfast School of Biological Sciences

full postal address

Medical Biology Centre 97 Lisburn Road

Belfast

telephone number

+44 (0)28 9097 5787

facsimile number

+44 (0)28 9097 5877

email address

sobb.office@qub.ac.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

Ecologist

organisation name

Queen's University Belfast School of Biological Sciences

full postal address

Medical Biology Centre 97 Lisburn Road

Belfast

telephone number

+44 (0)28 9097 5787

facsimile number

+44 (0)28 9097 5877

email address

sobb.office@qub.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

2021-02-03

Metadata language