Name: ICES Fish stomach contents dataset
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The Fish predator/prey database (stomach database) contains data covering 11 countries. A total of 217 399 stomachs are reported in the North Sea data. Eight predator species were analysed and 854 NODC prey codes have been reported

Citation

ICES Fish stomach contents dataset (STOMACH). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010. Online source: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:12

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

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

Contacts

Neil Holdsworth
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

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

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

84,778

total submitted occurrences

84,778

accepted occurrences

500,135

measurements and facts

289

taxa

145

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	84,778	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	14,733	17.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	14,733	17.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	14,733	17.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	1,436	1.7%
ON_LAND	7	0.0%

ICES Fish stomach contents dataset

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data