2006 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA7 Technical Report - Fish and fisheries (NE Atlantic west of Scotland)

This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA7) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). The SEA7 area includes the west coast of mainland Scotland with its numerous sea lochs, the continental shelf with the Hebridean Islands, the continental slope of the northern Rockall Trough, the Rockall Trough and its seamounts, the Rockall and Hatton Banks and the abyssal depths to the west of Hatton Bank. All these areas, except the abyssal depths support a diverse variety of fisheries using demersal, pelagic and static gears. SEA7 lies within ICES Sub areas VI and XII. Relevant aspects of the biology of 39 species or species groups have been described. Brief descriptions are given of the fishery for each species, including the method of fishing and the long term trends in the landings from each of the management areas are described.

Date (Publication): 2006-01-01

Identifier: British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_106

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British Geological Survey (BGS) - Paul Henni

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Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

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Use limitation: The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Biota
Environment
Oceans

Date (Revision): 2006-01-01

Unique resource identifier: North Atlantic Ocean

Begin date: 2006-01-01

End date: 2006-01-01

Supplemental Information: http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

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OnLine resource: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS.

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Statement: This report was prepared by John D M Gordon, Honorary Fellow of the Scottish Association for Marine Science as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. The primary fishery management tool in the SEA7 area is the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and when quotas become restrictive misreporting of catches can seriously distort landings data for some species. In the SEA7 misreporting has been and is prevalent between the west of Scotland (ICES Sub-area VI) and the North Sea (Sub-area IV) and between west of Scotland and Irish waters (ICES Sub-area VII). ICES Working Groups often make adjustments for what are termed unallocated landings and these data are used in this report.

A wide variety of data sources have been used in this report ranging from literature reviews, site specific surveys, fishery surveys and ICES reports.

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Date stamp: 2011-08-30

Metadata standard name: MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard

Metadata standard version: Version 2.3.5

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