Impacts of bait collection on Welsh Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)

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

Identifier: NRW_DS161356

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Impacts of Bait Collection on Welsh MPAs (eb56c392-90f5-45ae-8ecd-c57dc47e3639)

Metadata Language: English

Lineage: Boulder turning activities were monitored at west of Great Orme, Conwy and Penmon-Beaumaris, Anglesey. The west of Great Orme site falls within the Aber Afon Conwy Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the Penmon-Beaumaris site is situated in the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Glannau Penmon-Biwmares SSSI. Both sites are subject to boulder turning which has the potential to impact some designated features within each site.

Additional Information: 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: 482, 266pp, ABPmer, Southampton

Dataset Reference Date (Creation): 2025-04-11

Temporal Extent

Begin date: 2023-09-01

End date: 2024-08-31

Topic category

Biota

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Natural Resources Wales (NRW) -

Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en

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Natural Resources Wales (NRW) -

Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en

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ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd -

Suite B, Waterside House, Town Quay, Southampton, SO14 2AQ, England

http://www.abpmer.co.uk/

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Geographic Extent: Wales (WLS)

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Lineage: Boulder turning activities were monitored at west of Great Orme, Conwy and Penmon-Beaumaris, Anglesey. The west of Great Orme site falls within the Aber Afon Conwy Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the Penmon-Beaumaris site is situated in the Menai Strait and Conwy Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Glannau Penmon-Biwmares SSSI. Both sites are subject to boulder turning which has the potential to impact some designated features within each site.

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Habitats and biotopes

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Date (Publication): 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)

Type: Theme

Citation

Date (Publication): 2025-01-08

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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance

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Citation

Date (Publication): 2024-06-19

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Code: WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

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Metadata Date: 2025-12-17T16:18:10.187Z

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Maes y Ffynnon , Bangor , LL57 2DW , Wales

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