2022, The Crown Estate, The Crown Estate Research, Using Marine Industry Data for UK Marine Assessment and Reporting (Scoping Report)

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This study outlines potential uses of marine industry data for marine assessment and reporting. Existing studies that explore the use of industry data were examined, including projects such as OneBenthic, The Joint Cetacean Data Programme and the Office for National Statistic's Marine Natural Capital Accounts. The existing studies were reviewed to explore whether UK Marine Strategy descriptors were included and whether industry data had been utilised. There were notable gaps in the number of studies which had explored industry data containing information regarding UK Marine Strategy Descriptors, such as "commercial fish", "contaminants", "hydrography" and "non-indigenous species". An initial search of the industry data that is made available through the MDE produced a large range of surveys that contained key words relevant to important UK marine assessments (such as Good Environmental Status (GES) reporting), highlighting potentially useful data for inclusion in said assessments. To explore how data collected by offshore industries can support data aggregation for marine monitoring and assessment, this study recommends five future pilot study themes, including searching industry data held on the MDE for: >Commercial and non-commercial fish species >UK Marine Strategy (GES) and 25 Year Environment Plan indicators >Water quality surveys and habitat mapping data to inform natural capital accounting >Trends in data collected from offshore wind postconstruction monitoring surveys >And to explore how discoverable and accessible information is within surveys and reports The study concludes that there are several opportunities where inclusion of industry data in marine assessments and reporting could contribute to the development of natural capital and ecosystem service approaches, helping the UK in progressing towards its aim of ecologically diverse and productive oceans.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-02-20
Access contraints
Publicly Available
Harvest GUID
bad10bcf553a15ed30bc46f9cae4dc54
Extent
Latitude: 56.6000° to 47.5000°
Longitude: -9.9000° to 3.4000°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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2022-11-14 (publication)
2022-06-01 (creation)
2022-11-14 (revision)
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The Crown Estate (originator, custodian)
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