Name: National Marine Monitoring Programme data set
License: Restricted

The National Marine Monitoring Programme dataset describes the spatial distribution of contaminants in UK marine waters and their biological status

Citation

Whomersley, P., 2003: National Marine Monitoring Programme. Benthos data of the North Sea, Irish Sea, English Channel from 2002-2003. CEFAS, Burnham On Crouch, UK

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:29

First registration

July 19, 2021 at 17:08

License

Restricted

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=macroben_nmmp_evco

Contacts

Paul Whomersley
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; Burnham Laboratory

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Ruben Perez Perez
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

1,161

total submitted occurrences

1,155

accepted occurrences

3,553

measurements and facts

210

taxa

142

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,161		100.0%
scientificNameID		6	0.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_MATCH		6	0.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME		2	0.2%

National Marine Monitoring Programme data set

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data