Select the species of interest, the size component of the catch, season and catch metric below to display the desired hotspot map;
As part of the DiscardLess project work has been conducted to produce tools to assist stakeholders in achieving the gradual elimination of discarding. A number of mapping tools have been developed by the project to provide as much information as possible to fishers to assist in avoiding unwanted catches and to maximise opportunities to catch their quotas.
Using a unique dataset, combining observer data for Irish, French and British fishing vessels operating in the Celtic Sea between 2010 and 2015, maps have been developed to identify where catches of quota restricted species or under minimum conservation reference size catches have been consistent through time, thus indicating where they may be most likely to occur.
The maps have been constructed as follows;
Within this app the hotspot maps for each of these two catch metrics for each TAC species can be viewed individually. It is also possible to compare different layers from these individual maps for multiple species on one map to identify where different species distributions overlap.
We would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the following short survey to provide feedback on this Hot-Spot Map Explorer. The Map Explorer is currently still in development and your thoughts and input could help to greatly improve this product.
This survey should only take 5-10 minutes to complete
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