Gadoid numbers and speed, and environmental characteristics in the South Arran Marine Protected Area

• Main Authors: Elliott, Sophie A M, Sabatino, Alessandro D, Heath, Michael R, Turrell, William R, Bailey, David M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: BIO; Biology; Scotland; South_Arran_MPA; South Arran Marine Protected Area; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.879306; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.879306

Nature conservation and fisheries management often focuses on particular seabed features that are considered vulnerable or important to commercial species. As a result, individual seabed types are protected in isolation, without any understanding of what effect the mixture of seabed types within the...