Fladen Grounds Fishing Impact Recovery Data from 2m Beam Trawl Surveys in 2015

Total count and biomass measurements of seabed taxa collected using a 2m scientific beam trawl. Data were gathered by the RV Cefas Endeavour in April and November 2015 within three experimental treatment boxes on the Fladen Grounds, at three time points relative to fishing impact. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling biomass recovery rates of benthic taxa based on the before, immediately after, and 8-months-after impact time series.
• Assessing the spatial impact of trawling within defined experimental boxes based on station information.
• Analyzing community composition changes from fishing disturbance based on identified taxa counts and biomass.

Strengths

• Data collection follows a controlled experimental design with three defined time points (0, 1, 2) relative to impact.
• Samples were collected during two dedicated research surveys in 2015 using a standardized 2m scientific beam trawl.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service via eu_open_data.

Collection Method

Samples collected using a 2m scientific beam trawl from the RV Cefas Endeavour.

Time Range

2015 (April and November surveys).

Freshness

Data is from 2015; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Fladen Grounds, North Sea.