FISP Filling the Gap Project: Crustacean Fisheries and Habitat Research 2022-2024
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Description
A collaborative fisheries research project led by Seafish, Bangor University, and industry groups, conducted between 2022 and 2024. The project collected data on brown crab and European lobster size composition, fisher interviews, and ecological dive surveys to assess pot fishing impacts. It aimed to improve understanding of landings structure, population size factors, benthic habitat effects, and soft-shell crab assessment methodology.
Use Cases
Modeling crustacean population size structure based on onboard size composition data and environmental factors.
Analyzing changes in fishing practices and their ecological effects based on interviews with commercial fishers.
Assessing benthic habitat impact from pot fishing using quadrat and transect data from ecological dive surveys.
Developing methods for assessing crab shell hardness and its relationship to meat yield based on durometer measurements and laboratory dissections.
Strengths
Data collection covers multiple aspects: size composition, fisher behavior interviews, and direct ecological surveys.
Project involves collaboration between academic institutions (Bangor University), government bodies (IFCA), and industry groups.
Research addresses four distinct work packages, providing a multi-faceted view of the fishery.
Limitations
Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data coverage is specific to English and Welsh waters and South Devon, which may limit geographic generalizability.
Provenance
Source
Seafish, Bangor University, Devon and Severn IFCA, Crab and Lobster Management Group
Collection Method
Data collected via onboard vessel surveys, fisher interviews, ecological dive surveys, and laboratory dissections.
Time Range
2022-2024
Freshness
Data collection period is specified as 2022-2024, but the last update date for the shared dataset is unknown.
Geography
English and Welsh waters, North Wales, South Devon
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