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WOT-schelpdieren: Dutch national shellfish monitoring in the coastal zone
Citation
Wageningen Marine Research (2019). WOT-schelpdieren: Dutch national shellfish monitoring in the coastal zone. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/6204
Contact: van der Wal, Jan Tjalling
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Every year, Wageningen Marine Research carries out shellfish surveys in the Dutch coastal waters (Wadden Sea, Oosterschelde, Westerschelde and Coastal Zone), investigating the distribution and size of the most important commercial shellfish species. These are mainly mussels, cockles, knife hives and Japanese oysters, but also other species with a certain importance for ecology or fishing are included. In addition, catch data from professional fishing are also collected. The data is used by the government when deciding whether or not to permit fishing. more

Furthermore, the survey data is important for the evaluation of control measures and impact studies in the context of Natura 2000 and the nature conservation law. Within the Natura 2000 areas of the Wadden Sea, Oosterschelde, Westerschelde, Voordelta and North Sea Coastal Zone, conservation objectives have been set for various bird species that rely on shellfish as a food source. In addition, shellfish banks are an important element in various habitat types
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:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Shellfish catch statistics, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Netherlands, Dutch Coast, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Anthozoa, Asteroidea, Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Malacostraca, Ophiuroidea
Geographical coverage
ANE, Netherlands, Dutch Coast [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 3,1625; MinLat: 51,3833 - MaxLong: 6,5417; MaxLat: 53,7 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2004 - 2017
Taxonomic coverage
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Asteroidea [WoRMS]
Bivalvia [WoRMS]
Gastropoda [WoRMS]
Malacostraca [WoRMS]
Ophiuroidea [WoRMS]
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Contributors
Wageningen University and Research Centre; Wageningen Marine Research (WMR), more, data creator
van der Wal, Jan Tjalling
Troost, Karin
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2019-04-01
Metadatarecord created: 2019-03-11
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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