Dataset

Fish community surveys for the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the North Sea OWEZ wind park between 2003 and 2011

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In 2006, the first Dutch offshore wind farm was built 10-19 km from the shore of Egmond aan Zee. A monitoring and evalulation program accompanied the plans for the construction and exploitation of this farm. This dataset focusses on the monitoring and evaluation of potential ecological consequences in the Dutch coastal zone related to this farm for the fish community. Monitoring was executed prior to the construction of the farm (2003/2004), one year after (2007/2008) and five years after (2011). Surveys were preformed with beam trawls, pelagic nets and gillnets to study both benthic and pelagic fish communities. The monitoring is directed and the dataset is maintained by Wagening Marine Research, previously IMARES, located at Wageningen, the Netherlands. Publication of the dataset has been facilitated by Deltares, The Netherlands.

Citation: Wageningen Marine Research (WMR), the Netherlands; (2020). MEP-NSW Fish community: Fish community surveys for the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the North Sea OWEZ wind park between 2003 and 2011. https://www.noordzeewind.nl/nl_nl/kennis/ecologie-and-omgeving/_jcr_content/par/tabbedcontent/tab_525679140/textimage.stream/1555488220693/8eb2896f3f887ec7d9283d45753522a255d16068/owez-r-264-t1-final-report-fish.pdf

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:13

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

NoordzeeWind BV
NoordzeeWind BV

Wageningen University and Research Centre; Wageningen Marine Research
Wageningen University and Research Centre; Wageningen Marine Research

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

38,307
occurrence records
119,806
measurements and facts
113
taxa
96
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 38,307
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 38,307
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 38,307
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 38,307
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data