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POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Seabird sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 to 2013: during the capture of live bait
Citable as data publication
Machete, M.; Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores (DOP/UAC), Portugal; (2014): POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Seabird sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 to 2013: during the capture of live bait. https://doi.org/10.14284/10
Contact:
Machete, Miguel ;
Catarino, Diana
Availability:
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
Recorded sightings of seabirds close to and/or interacting with the boat, while capturing the live bait. more
For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)
For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)
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 > Birds
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Azores · 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 · Sea regions · Tuna fisheries · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Aves
Geographical coverage
Azores [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -38,1275; MinLat: 23,5 - MaxLong: -16,199; MaxLat: 39,9916 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -38,1275; MinLat: 23,5 - MaxLong: -16,199; MaxLat: 39,9916 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1998 - 2013
19 May 1998 - 9 September 2013 (EurOBIS harvested data)
Taxonomic coverage
Aves [WoRMS]
Parameter
Animal sightings
Contributors
University of the Azores; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), more, data creator
Machete, Miguel
Catarino, Diana
Catarino, Diana
Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), data creator
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
POPA: Azores Fisheries Observation Programme: POPA cetacean, seabird, and sea turtle sightings in the Azores area
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Gridded abundance maps of marine birds around the Azores
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2015-02-13
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-19
Information last updated: 2026-01-26

