IMIS

SCOROC: DATRAS Scottish Rockall Groundfish Survey

Citation

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark; (2023): DATRAS: ICES Database of trawl surveys, survey: SCOROC. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8174

Contact: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), more

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/spa/catalog.search#/metadata/c5563c85-9f09-49b9-ba3e-fd89a2e46213

Availability: Licence
Conditions of supply and usage of the data are specified in a formal agreement.

Notes: ICES Data Policy: http://www.ices.dk/marine-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. This is a new survey from 2011, replacing historical ROCKALL survey in DATRAS.

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, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · ANE, British Isles, Rockall · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Regional · Sea regions · Species distribution · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Rockall · United Kingdom · Teleostei

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -15,9157; MinLat: 55,8203 - MaxLong: -12,986; MaxLat: 58,319 [WGS84]

Rockall [Marine Regions]

United Kingdom [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

From 2011 on [In Progress]

26 August 2011 - 18 September 2021 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage

Teleostei [WoRMS]

Parameters

Age distribution
Catch per unit effort
Length