BGS Metadata Catalogue
2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Cephalopods - An Overview of Cephalopods Relevant to the SEA 6 Area (Irish Sea)
This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). Cephalopods are short-lived molluscs, characterised by rapid growth rates, and are important predators and prey in oceanic and neritic environments. They are active predators at all stages of their life-cycle and generally regarded as opportunistic, taking a wide variety of prey. Cannibalism has been frequently recorded in cephalopod species. Cephalopods also sustain a number of marine top predators such as fish, birds and marine mammals, especially whales. Many species are powerful swimmers and carry out vast feeding and spawning migrations, thus influencing prey and predator communities strongly on a seasonal and regional basis.
As cephalopods are important elements in food webs they interact with commercial fisheries of finfish. Evidence exists that fishing pressure has changed ecological conditions and shifts in community structures have occurred with cephalopod stocks slowly replacing predatory fish stocks. Their commercial significance to world fisheries is of relatively recent, but growing, importance. From a commercial point of view, the most important cephalopod species in the SEA6 area is Loligo forbesi, which is landed as a by-catch of the demersal trawl fishery (82 tonnes in 2002). But the species Alloteuthis subulata, although of no commercial value, has an important ecological role in the coastal food webs, since it is the most commonly recorded cephalopod species in the stomach contents of demersal fish in UK waters.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2005-05-10
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_SEA_82
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Paul Henni
Custodian Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Resource format
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Name Version Documents
- Keywords
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Use limitation
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The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Distance
- 5 m
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Oceans
- Title
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
- Date (Revision)
- 2006-01-01
- Code
- Irish Sea
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- Begin date
- 2005-01-01
- End date
- 2005-01-01
- Supplemental Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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As part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme this report was prepared by M. Sacau, G. J. Pierce, G. Stowasser, J. Wang, and M. B. Santos of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Data on cephalopod landings from the ICES area are compiled by the ICES Working Group on Cephalopod Fisheries and Life History (WGCEPH) on a country by country basis. The SEA 6 area corresponds to ICES fisheries subdivision VIIa, the Irish Sea, which is fished by Scottish, other UK (English/Welsh/Northern Irish), Irish, Isle of Man, French and Belgian fleets. Data for each of these fleets are collected separately and complied by the respective national fisheries laboratories. Fishery data provide the best available information on cephalopod distribution and abundance. Since most cephalopods are landed in the UK as a by-catch of trawling, landings per unit effort (LPUE) can be used as an index of species abundance and such data are available on a monthly, by ICES rectangle, basis.
Metadata
- File identifier
- aba64100-c146-4de3-e044-0003ba6f30bd XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2011-08-30
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.5
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mary Mowat
Point of contact
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