Annual fish community assessments in seven river estuaries in Northern Ireland. Data is collected primarily for reporting to the Water Framework Directive (WFD), with a subset reported to the MERMAN database for the Clean Seas Evidence Group (CSEG) work programme. The dataset is managed by the Marine Environmental Data & Information Network.
Use Cases
- Assess compliance with Water Framework Directive (WFD) standards based on fish community data.
- Monitor long-term trends in estuarine fish populations based on annual survey data.
- Support the Clean Seas Evidence Group (CSEG) work programme based on a subset of the survey data.
- Analyze the ecological status of seven specific Northern Irish river estuaries based on survey locations.
Strengths
- Data collection is annual, enabling time-series analysis.
- Surveys cover seven distinct river estuaries in Northern Ireland.
- Data serves a dual reporting purpose for WFD and CSEG programs.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Collection Method
- Annual field surveys of fish communities.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-11 08:16:51.323360; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Seven river estuaries in Northern Ireland.