Cefas Shrimp Catch and Length Data from the Wash, 1995-2002

Brown shrimp catch and bycatch data, along with shrimp length distributions and environmental measurements, were collected by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science. The data originates from a monitoring programme investigating the potential impacts of dredging in the Wash Area 107 aggregate site. The programme ran from 1995 to 2002.

Use Cases

• Modeling brown shrimp population dynamics based on catch data mentioned in the description
• Assessing the impact of dredging on marine ecosystems based on the programme's stated purpose
• Analyzing the relationship between shrimp size distributions and environmental conditions based on the described data types
• Studying bycatch composition in a shrimp fishery based on the described data

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 8-year time range from 1995 to 2002
• Includes multiple data types: catch, biological measurements (length), and environmental data as described
• Collected by a named government science agency (Cefas) for a defined research purpose

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas)

Collection Method

Monitoring programme data collection

Time Range

1995 - 2002

Freshness

Data collection concluded in 2002; historical dataset.

Geography

The Wash and adjacent areas, specifically Area 107 aggregate site