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Fisheries
Fisheries

Marine Scotland manages quota for fish stocks and all inshore fisheries within the 12 nautical mile territorial water limit. It is also responsible for controlling the activities of fishing vessels and fishing effort (days spent at sea) in the North Sea, west of Scotland and Faroese waters.
In this section, citable data and reports relevant to fishing activities will be added.

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Deepwater Elasmobranch Species Data From MSS Trawling Surveys 1996 - 2019

This dataset contains all MSS trawl survey records from 38 species of elasmobranchs collected from stations on various MSS deepwater and monkfish (anglerfish) trawl surveys undertaken between 1996 and 2019 and covering a depth range spanning 300 - 2100m. The areas covered include the Hebridean shelf slope, adjacent offshore banks and seamounts as well as the Faroe- Shetland Channel and Wyville Thomson Ridge.

This data set was used in the publication 'Sharks, skates and rays of Scotland' a report commissioned by SNH and which the originator of this metadata record is also a co - author.

doi: 
10.7489/12326-1
Citation: 
Marine Scotland, Finlay Burns. 2020. Deepwater Elasmobranch Species Data From MSS Trawling Surveys 1996 - 2019. DOI: 10.7489/12326-1

Data and Resources

fish abundance in water bodies
Fish taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of the bed
Fish taxonomy-related counts
Elasmobranchs
FieldValue
Publisher
Fisheries
Modified
2020-07-27
Release Date
2020-07-27
Identifier
b9f99dd0-958a-49c4-8f02-0edc2461b28b
License
UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Public Access Level
Public