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ROCKALL: Scottish Rockall Survey for commercial fish species
Citation
Fish trawl survey: Scottish Rockall Survey for commercial fish species. ICES Database of trawl surveys (DATRAS). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010. Online source: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2767

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: ICES Data Policy: https://www.ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx

Description
The dataset includes age- and length-based catch per unit effort data for commercial fish species collected during the Scottish Rockall Survey. more

The Scottish Quarter 3 Rockall survey began in 1985 and was carried out annually until 1997. However, in 1998 it was decided to make the survey a bi-annual event; in 1998 a new survey of deep water stocks was completed, in the future the Rockall survey and a deep water survey will occur in alternate years. The Rockall surveys will generally be in September during odd numbered years. The survey covers only a relatively small area, in the order of eight ICES rectangles. Trawl stations are on known clear tows and vary between 2 and 8 per rectangle depending on the proportion of the area within the 250m depth contour.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · ANE, British Isles, Rockall · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Commercial fisheries · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Regional · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Rockall

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -15,2333; MinLat: 56,2 - MaxLong: -13,3323; MaxLat: 57,9078 [WGS84]
Rockall [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1999 on [In Progress]
Two-yearly
29 August 1999 - 12 September 2009 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Parameter
Catch per unit effort

Contributors
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), moredata managerdata providerdata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
DATRAS: ICES Database on Trawl Surveys, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Other relation:
SCOROC: DATRAS Scottish Rockall Groundfish Survey, more


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2011-01-04
Metadatarecord created: 2010-12-22
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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