Name: Red king crab survey data from Finnmark (Northern Norway) from 1994
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

The dataset contains records of red king crab from 1994 in the coastal area of Finnmark (Northern Norway). The data has been sampled with trawl and traps, and the sampling has been conducted mostly during the autumn.

Citation

Hjelset, Ann Merete; Institute of Marine Research (2025): Red king crab survey data from Finnmark (Northern Norway) from 1994. https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=imr_kingcrab

Published

April 16, 2026 at 11:48

First registration

October 24, 2025 at 15:12

License

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

URL

https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=imr_kingcrab

Archive

https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/archive.do?r=imr_kingcrab

Contacts

Ann Merete Hjelset
Institute of Marine Research

Jan H Sundet
Institute of Marine Research

Arnfinn Morvik
Institute of Marine Research

Rocío Castaño Primo
Institute of Marine Research

9,106

total submitted occurrences

9,106

accepted occurrences

7,667

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	9,106		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	6,495		71.3%
minimumDepthInMeters	6,495		71.3%
occurrenceStatus		7	0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	6,495	71.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	168	1.8%
ON_LAND	120	1.3%

Red king crab survey data from Finnmark (Northern Norway) from 1994

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data