Skomer Marine Conservation Zone ( MCZ ) - Marine Monitoring Programme Overview

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• Last updated: 10 July 2024
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Summary

In 2015 Skomer Marine Nature Reserve (MNR) changed designation to Skomer Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ). Skomer Marine Nature Reserve (MNR) was designated in 1990. The Skomer Marine Monitoring Team has focused on developing a range of projects to monitor the health of the reserve and investigate the relevant aspects of the species life histories for baseline information. Large scale surveys developed in the 1970's and 1980's provided the foundation for the monitoring. This metadata details general monitoring on Skomer, each datasets has its own metadata entry. Monitoring is undertaken to provide an assessment of the condition of features against set targets and will contribute to reporting on the MNR as well as Pembrokeshire Marine Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) w ithin which the reserve lies. Data is collected around Skomer Island and on the mainland between Musselwick Sands and Gateholm Island within the Marine Nature Reserve. Data has been collected from 1975 onwards. An extensive review of images has been completed to determine the quantity and quality of information that could be extracted from these images. Species data has been collated from a number of surveys entered into Marine Recorder which have been packaged for dissemination onto the NBN Gateway.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-11-24
• Access contraints: Part of this dataset is sensitive and restricted. See individual metadata entries for specific datasets that have a restricted release. Sensitive data must be kept confidential; general release is not permitted due to risk of harm to the environment or third parties. Sensitive data may only be released under an appropriate NRW Licence. Requests should be referred to NRW's Access to Information Officer. Data may be released freely if the sensitive records are removed in advance, or shown only at a coarser scale.
• Harvest GUID: 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313130303539
• Extent: Latitude: 51.797630° to 51.669911°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.369050° to -5.162825°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::UTM WGS84
• Dataset reference date: 2016-08-17 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2013-12-31 (revision)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (custodian, originator); Countryside Council for Wales (CCW). Skomer MNR Team (originator); Assisstant Marine Conservation Officer Skomer (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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© CNC/NRW 2013. Recipients may only re-use sensitive data in strict confidence under the terms of an appropriate NRW Licence. No publication or dissemination is permitted, except if sensitive records are removed in advance, or shown only at a coarser scale.