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IMR_OWF: Long term acoustic tracking of marine fish species in Norwegian Offshore Wind development areas
Citation
Olsen, E.M.; McQueen, K.; van der Knaap, I.; (2025): IMR_OWF - Long term acoustic tracking of marine fish species in Norwegian Offshore Wind development areas. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/9029

Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2031-08-31

Notes: Receiver deployment metadata available at: https://www.lifewatch.be/etn/.

Description

Offshore wind is under development across Europe. In Norway, two areas (Utsira Nord, which is part of Vestavind F, and Sørlige Nordsjø II) have been opened with the goal of contributing to the national ambitions of 30 GW of installed power in 2040. This project aims at understating the area use of different marine species before, during, and after construction of the turbines in these two areas. We will use acoustic telemetry to track the presence, migration, and distribution of different fish species in the areas. 


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings, Physical > Underwater acoustics
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Acoustic arrays · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic Tags · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Animal movement · Animal Project · Fish tracking · Network Project · Offshore construction · Offshore platforms · North Sea · Pisces · Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage
North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 September 2025 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Target species
Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Institute of Marine Research (IMR), moreprincipal investigatordata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2026-03-06
Information last updated: 2026-03-06
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