Impacts of bait collection on Welsh Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): Bait Digging
Survey to assess the impacts of three bait collection methods on Welsh MPAs - bait digging (Sites : Angle Bay, Four Mile Bridge, Penmon - Beaumaris), boulder turning (Penmon-Beaumaris, West of Great Orme), crab shelters (Deganwy, Bangor Pier). Samples taken from control and impact sites. Infaunal cores, sediment cores, benthic megafauna (i.e. razor clam, cockle) quadrat, worm cast count, seagrass coverage, boulder epifauna, boulder turning classification.
This metadata covers the results of the bait digging monitoring at Angle Bay, Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris.
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Identification
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- NRW_DS161356
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- Impacts of Bait Collection on Welsh MPAs (eb56c392-90f5-45ae-8ecd-c57dc47e3639)
- Metadata Language
- English
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Bait digging monitoring was carried out at Angle Bay, Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris. The objective of the survey was to determine any possible impacts of bait digging on muddy gravels and seagrass habitats. Muddy gravel habitats were only sampled at Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris sampling sites whereas seagrass habitats were sampled at Angle Bay. Survey methods included a comparative sampling strategy between areas that were exposed to intensive bait digging and areas that experience less (or no) bait digging activities.
Monitoring was carried out at Angle Bay between the 15th and 17th of September 2023. Monitoring was carried out at Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris sites between the 2nd and 7th of June 2024.
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Gihwala, K.N., West, V.A., Frost, N.J, Robbins, K. 2024. Impacts of bait collection on Welsh Marine Protected Areas: Year two survey report. NRW Evidence Report, Report No: 862, 266pp, ABPmer, Southampton
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2025-04-11
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2025-12-17
Temporal Extent
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- 2023-09-01
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- 2024-08-31
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- Biota
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Raw Survey Data
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NRW Evidence Report in word or pdf format.
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- View and Download Data ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
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Bait digging monitoring was carried out at Angle Bay, Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris. The objective of the survey was to determine any possible impacts of bait digging on muddy gravels and seagrass habitats. Muddy gravel habitats were only sampled at Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris sampling sites whereas seagrass habitats were sampled at Angle Bay. Survey methods included a comparative sampling strategy between areas that were exposed to intensive bait digging and areas that experience less (or no) bait digging activities.
Monitoring was carried out at Angle Bay between the 15th and 17th of September 2023. Monitoring was carried out at Four Mile Bridge and Penmon-Beaumaris sites between the 2nd and 7th of June 2024.
Keywords
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- 2008-06-01
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- marine protected areas(marine consultation areas)(sensitive marine areas)seealso marine conservation&marine nature reserve
- bait digging (bait collecting)
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- 2025-01-08
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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- Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-06-19
Spatial Reference System
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- WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
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There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
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© CNC/NRW Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved.
Licence
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- Open Government Licence
Metadata
Metadata
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- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313631333536 XML
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- English
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Impacts of bait collection on Welsh Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
NRW_DS161478
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- Metadata Date
- 2026-01-14T10:01:11.25Z
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- NRW
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1.0