FishDAC: Commercial and Non-commercial Fish and Shellfish Discards (Observer Programme) Scotland

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10 July 2024
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Summary

The observer programme (previously referred to as discard programme) commenced in 1975 as a result of an ICES resolution (ICES Council Resolution 1975/4:22) which stressed the importance of the collection of discard data as an aid to improving the assessment of fish stocks.

Data on fish discarded at sea are collected aboard commercial fishing vessels. The original aim of the sampling scheme was to sample each of the main sea areas (as per ICES regions) once per quarterly period for the five main gears - heavy trawl, seine net, light trawl, pair trawl and Nephrops trawl. However, this is continually being revised in light of changes to fishing patterns and also changes in effort by gear types.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2014-04-30
Access contraints
Not specified
Harvest GUID
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1265
Extent
Latitude: 62.5° to 54.5°
Longitude: -15° to 2°
Spatial reference system
WGS84
Dataset reference date
1900-01-01 (publication)
Frequency of update
unknown
Responsible party
Marine Scotland (pointOfContact, originator, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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