Identification
- Title
- Foraging Fish
- Abstract
These map layers provide information on the location of spawning and nursery areas of several forage fish species in Welsh and surrounding waters, including the Irish and Celtic Seas and the western English Channel. These layers are provided for eleven fish species that are prey to marine mammals and seabirds: herring, sprat, sardine, anchovy, sandeel, horse mackerel, mackerel and garfish as well as the gadoid species poor cod, whiting and cod. Using survey data from 2008 to 2020, hotspot maps were created for adults and juveniles of each of the species, for two periods of the year (Quarter 1 and Quarter 4). A full description of the hotspot methodology used can be found in Campanella and van der Kooij (2021).
Source: Cefas
Includes Crown copyright, Cefas 2023.
- Licence
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Publication date
- 27 October 2022
- Type
- Spatial data
- Category:
- Oceans
- Regions
- Global
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- Group
- Geography & Technology
Information
- Spatial extent
- Projection system
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- -9.62489891052246
- Extension x1
- -1.35429990291595
- Extension y0
- 48.0198860168457
- Extension y1
- 55.0650024414063
Features
- Spatial Representation Type
- Vector data is used to represent geographic data
Contact
- data@gov.wales
- Organisation
- Welsh Government
- Department
- Geography & Technology
References
- Link online
- /layergroups/geonode:cefas_rspb_forage_fish
- Metadata page
- /layergroups/geonode:cefas_rspb_forage_fish/metadata_detail