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East of Gannet and Montrose Fields MPA Monitoring Report 2015 2020

Abstract

The East of Gannet and Montrose Fields Nature Conservation MPA is located to the east of Scotland and designated for the protection of three Priority Marine Features (PMFs): ocean quahog aggregations, offshore subtidal sands and gravels (representing sediment types suitable for ocean quahog colonisation), and offshore deep-sea muds. This report describes the offshore survey, completed by JNCC and Marine Scotland Science in November 2015 (1515S), to collect evidence to characterise the site and develop the first point in a monitoring time-series for the site.

Appendices 22 (Infaunal analysis report) and 23 (Geostatistical Modelling Work) accompany the report as separate PDF documents.

Please Note: Version 2 (April 2021): This report has been revised to amend an error in Table 4 (section 3.1.2), where the detailed EUNIS codes text for Sample type Stills (n = 622) / Broadscale Habitat (EUNIS Code) A5.3 Sublittoral mud (609), now reads ‘A5.354 Virgularia mirabilis and Ophiura spp. with Pecten maximus on circalittoral sandy or shelly mud’.

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Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2020·04·01

Citation
McCabe, C., McBreen, F. & O’Connor, J. 2020. East of Gannet and Montrose Fields MPA Monitoring Report 2015 (Version 2). JNCC/MSS Partnership Report No. 1, JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 2634-2081.

Lineage
Offshore seabed survey 1515S, to the East of Gannet and Montrose Fields and the Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain Nature Conservation MPAs, was undertaken by JNCC and Marine Scotland Science (MSS) in November 2015.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2023·09·05

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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