Integrated Marine Information System

Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data

Citation

Cauquil, P., Barde, J., Rodriguez, C., Chassot, E., Chavance, P. 2012. Ecoscope tuna bycatch observer data. Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD). https://doi.org/10.15468/23m361

Contact: Cauquil, Pascal ; Barde, Julien ; Rodriguez, Céline ; Chassot, Emmanuel ; Chavance, Pierre

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Tuna bycatch observer data. more

Studies of catches done by tropical tuna fisheries in Atlantic and Indian oceans. Species composition of bycatch in schools caught by different fleet of purse seiners in related areas (France, Spain, Ghana..), funded by european program for fisheries data collection.

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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Bycatches · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · ISW, Indian Ocean · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Tuna fisheries · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Atlantic · Indian Ocean · Pisces

Geographical coverage

Atlantic [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -24,1335; MinLat: -21,8668 - MaxLong: 79,6835; MaxLat: 15,8668 [WGS84]

Indian Ocean [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage

Pisces [WoRMS]

Parameters

Distribution
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Species composition

Contributors

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), more, data provider, data creator

Cauquil, Pascal
Barde, Julien
Rodriguez, Céline
Chassot, Emmanuel
Chavance, Pierre