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Marine fish volunteer ad-hoc recording scheme and historical records from around the United Kingdom between 1743 and 2010
Citation
The National Marine Aquarium, United Kingdom (2019) Marine fish volunteer ad-hoc recording scheme and historical records from around the United Kingdom between 1743 and 2010 https://doi.org/10.17031/2x2hau
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
"Volunteer marine fish records from a wide variety of sources including dive sightings, fishermen's records, anglers etc. as well as historical records collated from other sources such as museum specimens and marine faunas from 1743 - 2010. Records are from around the United Kingdom and some further reaching locations submitted to and collected by The National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth.
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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 · Benthic marine fish · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Citizen science · Data · Demersal fishes · diver · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · France · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Marine Genomics · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Pelagic fishes · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · ANE, French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] · ANE, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone · Pisces
Geographical coverage
ANE, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -16,8667; MinLat: 32,7354 - MaxLong: 15,0719; MaxLat: 68,9116 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -16,8667; MinLat: 32,7354 - MaxLong: 15,0719; MaxLat: 68,9116 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1743 - 2010
Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributors
National Marine Aquarium, data creator
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset information:
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Release date: 2019-05-08
Metadatarecord created: 2017-06-27
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
