Dataset

HMAP Dataset 12: North-west Scotland Fisheries

EurOBIS Oceans Past Initiative Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains catch data from West Scotland for herring, haddock and Norway lobster. The data covers the time period from 1893 to 2005.

Citation: C. Pita and G. Pierce, 'HMAP Dataset 12: North-west Scotland Fisheries', 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_12

Cristina Pita
University of Aberdeen; School of Biological Sciences

Graham Pierce
University of Aberdeen; School of Biological Sciences

Oceans Past Initiative
Oceans Past Initiative

University of Aberdeen; School of Biological Sciences
University of Aberdeen; School of Biological Sciences

John Nicholls
The University of Dublin, Trinity College

277
occurrence records
3
taxa
3
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 277
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 277
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 277
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 277
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data