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Observatoire Pelagis sightings from fishery surveys 2004-2009

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Description

Original provider: Observatoire PELAGIS UMS 3462 University La Rochelle - CNRS Dataset credits: Observatoire PELAGIS UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS Abstract: Regulation (EC) No 812/2004 of 26 April 2004 is intended to assess the incidental catch of cetaceans in fisheries and to reduce bycatch in some fisheries. This regulation requires plans observation on vessels over 15 meters operating in pelagic trawl or large vertical opening in ICES zones VI, VII, VIII and IX, and vessesl over 15 meters operating with set nets in ICES VIa, VI-a,b and VIIIa,b,c and IX.The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Directorate of Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture - DPMA) is responsible for the implementation of the Regulation for France. An observation program of incidental catches of cetaceans started in 2006 on the French metropolitan coast. The sampling plan provides coverage of 5% of the fishing effort for gillnets over 15 m in area VIII. For pelagic trawlers over 15m, a 5% coverage of the fishing effort has also been planned except for VI, VII and VIII where a coverage of 10% is required from December 1 to March 31.In addition, for vessels under 15m, pilot projects have been implemented by using on board observers. For simple pelagic trawls, a coverage rate of 5% of the fishing effort has been applied. For netters, a 1% coverage of the fishing effort has been targeted. This dataset gathered sightings made during these surveys together, but DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY BYCATCH DATA. Purpose: Implemented in 1983 in European waters, the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) is the marine translation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Its goals are manifold including estimating and reducing the total incidence of non-target species bycatch. Since 1992, the Habitats Directive required bycatch monitoring by European Union (EU) Member States. In line with commitments towards individual protected species, incidental catches are addressed under Article 12(4) which establishes an obligation to address, inter alia, by-catches: ‘Member States shall establish a system to monitor the incidental capture and killing of the animal species listed in Annex IV(a). In light of the information gathered, Member States shall take further research or conservation measures as required to ensure that incidental capture and killing does not have a significant impact on the species concerned’. The presence of observer on board is a good opportunity to collect data from live animal distribution and relative abundance, and provide additionnal data (considered as data collected on platform of opportunity). Supplemental information: Time and group size of the sightings are not available online. They may be released upon request.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 509 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Doremus, G. 2016. Observatoire Pelagis sightings from fishery surveys 2004-2009. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1405) on yyyy-mm-dd.

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: dad5e059-3864-48e3-b518-577a80927c97.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Cetaceans,Various; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1405 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1405/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Ghislain Doremus
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
Observatoire Pelagis UMS 3462, University La Rochelle - CNRS
Hélène Peltier
  • Originator
Secondary contact
Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, University La Rochelle-CNRS
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
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US

Geographic Coverage

France,Northeast Atlantic

Bounding Coordinates South West [42.667, -13.161], North East [52.151, 5.192]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Family Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Delphinidae (dolphins)
Species Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2004-07-19 / 2009-01-08

Project Data

No Description available

Title Observatoire Pelagis sightings from fishery surveys 2004-2009
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Ghislain Doremus
  • Owner
Hélène Peltier
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1405
Collection Identifier zd_1405
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Implemented in 1983 in European waters, the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) is the marine translation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Its goals are manifold including estimating and reducing the total incidence of non-target species bycatch. Since 1992, the Habitats Directive required bycatch monitoring by European Union (EU) Member States. In line with commitments towards individual protected species, incidental catches are addressed under Article 12(4) which establishes an obligation to address, inter alia, by-catches: ‘Member States shall establish a system to monitor the incidental capture and killing of the animal species listed in Annex IV(a). In light of the information gathered, Member States shall take further research or conservation measures as required to ensure that incidental capture and killing does not have a significant impact on the species concerned’. The presence of observer on board is a good opportunity to collect data from live animal distribution and relative abundance, and provide additionnal data (considered as data collected on platform of opportunity).
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1405