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HMAP Dataset 16: Peru, South-east Pacific
Citation
M. Ballón, C. Wosnitza-Mendo, R. Guevara-Carrasco and C. Benites, 'Peru, South-east Pacific', in J.H. Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/3153
Contact: Wosnitza-Mendo, Claudia ; Nicholls, John
Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset contains historical catch, effort and biological data relating to four demersal species fished off Peru (hake, seabass, croaker and searobin) since 1950.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Fisheries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biological data, Biota, Demersal fisheries, Environment, Fish catch statistics, Fishing effort, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Historical records, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, IS, South Pacific, ISE, Humboldt Current, Pisces
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -81,3395; MinLat: -7,8 - MaxLong: -80,045; MaxLat: -3,66 [WGS84]
IS, South Pacific Stations [Marine Regions]
Peruvian Coast
ISE, Humboldt Current [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1950 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Parameter
Occurrence of biota
Contributors
Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), more, data provider, data creator
Ballon, Michael
Wosnitza-Mendo, Claudia
Guevara-Carrasco, Renato
Benites Rodriguez, Carlos
The University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD), more, data manager
Nicholls, John
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OPI: Oceans Past Initiative, more
(Partly) included in:
HMAP: History of marine animal populations database, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2013-06-11
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-03
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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