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MMERMAID: Acoustic telemetry dataset of the monitoring of marine megafauna around an Offshore Wind Farm in the English channel
Citation
France Energies Marines; 2024; Acoustic telemetry dataset of the monitoring of marine megafauna around an Offshore Wind Farm in the English channel. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8622
Contact: Couturier, Lydie
Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2027-11-30
Description

The objective of the MMERMAID project is to monitor occupancy patterns and fine scale movements of fish species at high resolution around an offshore wind farm structure. In the Channel, several species of are monitored including sharks and rays, seabass, sea bream and flat fish.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings, Physical > Underwater acoustics
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Acoustic data, Acoustic detection, Acoustic devices, Acoustic Tags, Acoustic telemetry, Acoustic Telemetry, Acoustic tracking, Animal Project, Animal tracking, Bass, Fish movement, Fish tracking, Live fish movement, Marine fishes, Movement ecology, Sea bass, Shark species, Sharks, Tracking data, Wind farms, French part of the English Channel, Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758), Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821, Pisces, Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758, Raja undulata Lacepède, 1802, Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758), Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
French part of the English Channel [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
2024 - 2027
Taxonomic coverage
Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821 [WoRMS]
Pisces [WoRMS]
Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Raja undulata Lacepède, 1802 [WoRMS]
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Parameters
Acoustic detections Methodology
Fish detections Methodology
Acoustic detections: Acoustic telemetry
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry
Contributors
France Energies Marines (FEM), more, data creator, principal investigator
Couturier, Lydie
Mico, Olivier
Hervé, Hugo
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), more, data creator
Woillez, Mathieu
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more
Project
MMERMAID: Monitoring marine megafauna through an integrated approach towards an observatory network, more
URL
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2024-07-17
Information last updated: 2024-07-17
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