Identification
- Title
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022
- Abstract
This layer represents the total scallop fishing vessel activity over the 2012 to 2022 scallop fishing seasons. The scallop fishing season runs from 1st November to 30th April.
Since 2012, vessels fishing for scallops in the Welsh scallop fishery have been required to install a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS). The VMS records the location, speed, and heading of the vessel. Each record is referred to as a "ping". We have filtered the data to remove any “pings” where vessels are not fishing. We have assumed that vessels are fishing when travelling between 1 and 4 knots, and that no fishing occurs within 1km of ports.
We have aggregated the filtered data to show the number of pings per 0.01 degree grid cell. In order to protect the anonymity of fishers, no data is shown for cells containing data from less than 3 vessels.
- Licence
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Creation date:
- 28 June 2022
- Type
- Spatial data
- Keywords
- Fisheries, Marine, Morol, Pysgodfeydd
- Category:
- Oceans
- Regions
- Global
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- Group
- Geography & Technology
Information
- Spatial extent
- Projection system
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- -5.49000024795532
- Extension x1
- -3.41999983787537
- Extension y0
- 51.4499969482422
- Extension y1
- 53.8900032043457
Features
- Temporal extent
- Nov. 1, 2012, midnight - April 30, 2022, midnight
- Spatial Representation Type
- Grid data is used to represent geographic data
Contact
- data@gov.wales
- Organisation
- Welsh Government
- Department
- Geography & Technology
References
- Link online
- /layers/geonode:scallop_fishing_vms_pings_2012_to_2022
- Metadata page
- /layers/geonode:scallop_fishing_vms_pings_2012_to_2022/metadata_detail
- OGC Geopackage
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.gpkg
- DXF
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.dxf
- GML 2.0
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.gml
- GML 3.1.1
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.gml
- CSV
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.csv
- Zipped Shapefile
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.zip
- Excel
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.excel
- GeoJSON
- Scallop fishing vessel activity 2012 to 2022.json