Dataset

HMAP Dataset 17: North Sea Demersal Fish

EurOBIS Oceans Past Initiative Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains historical catch, effort and biological data relating to the UK North Sea demersal fishery. The data covers the time period 1920-1997.

Citation: J. Pinnegar, 'North Sea Demersal Fish', in J.H. Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php)

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:13

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=hmap_17

John Pinnegar
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; Lowesoft Laboratory

Oceans Past Initiative
Oceans Past Initiative

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; Lowesoft Laboratory
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; Lowesoft Laboratory

John Nicholls
The University of Dublin, Trinity College

284
occurrence records
4
taxa
4
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 284
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 284
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 284
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 284
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data