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Seafloor Marine Litter from UK EEZ zones between 2012 and 2017

Seafloor Marine Litter from UK EEZ zones between 2012 and 2017

Summary

This data set was used to assess the density of litter in the seafloor for the MSFD indicator assessment that was completed in 2018 and published in 2019 at https://moat.cefas.co.uk/pressures-from-human-activities/marine-litter/seafloor-litter. The data contained counts of each type of litter category. The data is contained in the file, litter 2017 new.csv. Details on what the data columns mean are shown in the readme file.

Keywords

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Open Government Licence

Attribution statement

See Cefas Data Portal for details – link to dataset below.

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

Data is only from the UK EEZ zone. This is made up of the Greater North Sea (GNS), the Northern Celtic Sea (NCS) and the Southern Celtic Sea (SCS). The GNS and the NCS data were collected from 2012-2015. The SCS data were collected from 2012-2014. The data were collected from fishing surveys. These surveys used two types of trawl: the GNS and the NCS surveys used GOV trawls, whereas the SCS survey used an Otter trawl. These types of trawls have different abilities to catch litter and data from different type of trawls are not directly comparable. Therefore the GNS and the NCS data were treated separately in the assessment to the SCS data.

Spatial information

Coordinate reference system

N/A

Geographic extent

Latitude from: 52.4581 to 52.4595
Longitude from: 1.73881 to 1.74086

Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

1a64b148-b728-4155-9db1-bed5f00b44be

Published by

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

Contact publisher

data.manager@cefas.gov.uk

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

22 January 2020

Revision date

17 May 2023

Publication date