Alternate title

Unified portal to access data from ichthyoplankton surveys carried out in ICES areas

Date

Identifier

Fish abundance in water bodies | Abundance category of biological entity specified elsewhere | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) | Unified portal to access data from ichthyoplankton surveys carried out in ICES areas

Other citation details

eggs and larvae database

Purpose

Fish egg and fish larvae data have been collected in the ICES area for a long time for use in stock assessments and fisheries management

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH09 - River Inputs

Environmental matrix

• Biota - Biology

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Fish abundance in water bodies

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Habitats and biotopes

Processing level of characteristics

• Observation (raw, QC)

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery + downloading + viewing services (Advanced services)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Abundance category of biological entity specified elsewhere

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• eel larvae

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Biota abundance, biomass and diversity

Service extent

• The datasets are provided through an EU Inspire catalogue service (OGC)

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

0.5  Grades

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

eel larval abundance in the sea

Begin date

1862-01-01

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  month

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• XLS ()

OnLine resource

eggs and larvae database ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Eggs and larvae ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

ICES is a receiver of Marine Data from national programmes and other marine institutes, therefore ICES is not the primary collection point of marine evidence that it holds and disseminates to the users of the data. Data are quality assured using internal and external programmes. For example, the national laboratories that take part in monitoring programmes related to contaminants and biological effects that submit information to ICES, subscribe to the Quality Assurance of Information for Marine Environmental Monitoring in Europe (QUASIMEME) or the Biological Effects Quality Assurance in Monitoring Programmes (BEQUALM) inter-laboratory proficiency-testing schemes and perform internal quality assurance. ICES operates through a network of scientific expert and advisory groups. These groups, and the processes they feed into, act as a quality check on the marine evidence, both in terms of how the evidence was gathered and how the evidence has been subsequently treated. The groups, in cooperation with regional programmes under the Regional Sea Conventions, set standards and guidelines for the collection, transmission and analysis of these data. In addition, the ICES Secretariat provides supplementary quality assurance through its internal programmes related to the different types of marine data collection datasets, which is fedback to the participating national and regional programmes. These internal and external programmes and procedures have been established over a period of 30 or more years. They continue to evolve and strive to reflect the best available practices in the collection and treatment of marine data relevant to the ICES community.

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

c3beb900-35b6-4551-a791-787523302c6c XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2017-06-12T12:57:32Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0