2011 - 2012 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Spawning and Nursery Grounds of Selected Fish in UK Waters
Ellis, J.R., Milligan, S.P., Readdy, L., Taylor, N. and Brown, M.J. 2012. Spawning and nursery grounds of selected fish species in UK waters. Sci. Ser. Tech. Rep., Cefas Lowestoft, 147: 56 pp.
Additional analyses to complement the original maps produced in 'Coull, K.A., Johnstone, R., and S.I. Rogers. 1998. Fisheries Sensitivity Maps in British Waters' (published and distributed by UKOOA Ltd.) and to: (a) Provide supporting evidence for the maps of spawning and nursery grounds; (b) Provide some of the more recent data that has become available since the original Fisheries Sensitivity Maps were produced; (c) Increase the number of species for which maps are available;(d) Plot the spawning areas as rectangles, so that the user is more likely to infer that the boundaries of such areas are not fixed delineations between spawning and non-spawning areas; (e) Provide more information on those grounds likely to be of greater importance to the stock(s).
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Since the production of maps by Coull et el 1998 there have been further ichthyoplankton surveys in some areas, and there are now other fish species for which there is an interest in the location of ‘critical habitats’.This report aimed to update some of these maps with more recent data, and so highlighting some of the evidence for their selection, and to provide a first attempt at identifying some of the ecologically important habitats for some other fish species, including some species of conservation importance (e.g. OSPAR, 2008) that have been considered in marine planning. Spurdog Squalus acanthias Tope shark Galeorhinus galeus Common skate Dipturus batis-complex 16 Thornback ray Raja clavata Spotted ray Raja montagui Undulate ray Raja undulata Herring Clupea harengus Cod Gadus morhua Whiting Merlangius merlangus Blue whiting Micromesistius poutassou Blue ling Molva dypterygia Ling Molva molva European hake Merluccius merluccius Anglerfish Lophius piscatorius Horse mackerel Trachurus trachurus Sandeels Ammodytidae Mackerel Scomber scombrus Plaice Pleuronectes platessa Sole Solea solea Where a value 0f -9999 appears in the dataset this is a NULL (NA) value where no sampling was taken for the field in the data.
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