2022 Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) on behalf of Cornwall Wildlife Trust Gerrans Bay Acoustic Survey of the seagrass bed

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• Last updated: 04 October 2022
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Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (Cornwall IFCA) was contracted by Cornwall Wildlife Trust to map the extent of the seagrass within Gerrans Bay as part of their blue carbon mapping project. The survey site is within the Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay Special Protection Area (SPA). This project was funded as part of the G7 Legacy Fund. The contract includes joint intellectual property (IP) of all data collected. The aim of the survey was to map the extent and coverage of the seagrass bed within Gerrans Bay using a Biosonics MX Scientific Echosounder. In total 170 acoustic survey lines were completed, all of which were included in the analysis.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-07-23
• Access contraints: No restrictions to public access
• Harvest GUID: 92be72da9620dd570cd3277b741f0573
• Extent: Latitude: 50.2050° to 50.1865°
• Extent: Longitude: -4.9663° to -4.9262°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2022-10-04 (publication)
• Frequency of update: irregular
• Responsible party: Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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Data is freely available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged (Cornwall IFCA and Cornwall Wildlife Trust) in any publications produced and permission must be sought if the data will be reproduced in full or part or if used in any analyses.