14.3.1.4.1UK Data The MMO monitors all UK vessels and all foreign vessels within the UK EEZ.
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Information regarding non-UK vessels cannot be disclosed by the MMO without prior permission from the vessels national regulating body.
20. The disclosure by the MMO of vessels’ VMS identities is restricted under the Data
Protection Act (1998). As a result of this the MMO has not been able to provide the same high definition VMS data for UK registered vessels as that provided, for example, by the Dutch authorities. The MMO has therefore only provided the aggregated number of position plots in a grid of rectangles of approximately 5.3nm² for the years 2007 to 2011. These data have been cross-referenced with landings values. The data have also been filtered by speed with vessels travelling at speeds from between one to six knots assumed to be fishing (Lee et al. 2010).
21. In addition to the MMO, Marine Scotland has provided VMS data (2007 to 2011) to
BMM. The data were produced by applying VMS records to the Fisheries Information Network (FIN), which is the Scottish Government’s sea fisheries database. FIN holds information on voyages (catches gear and mesh size) and landings (weight, price at sale). Logtime (the date and time of each VMS transmission) identifies each vessel’s voyage and enables the location of a vessel during each trip to be linked to the gear used and the weight of the landings (Holmes et al. 2011). The data are separated into groups representing key sectors such as crab, lobster, squid, Nephrops (mobile and static), demersal (mobile and static), scallop and pelagic fisheries (mackerel and herring) (Kafas et al. 2012).
22. As with the MMO dataset, theMarine Scotland data have been filtered by speed
with vessels travelling at speeds of between one and six knots presumed to be fishing. As previously stated, VMS records do not capture vessels under-15m and therefore may not fully represent the true extent of fishing activities within a given area.
14.3.1.4.2Dutch Data Landbouw Econmisch Instituut (LEI) and the Institute for Marine Resources and
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Ecosystem Studies (IMARES) have provided comprehensive VMS datasets from 2007 to 2012. The grid used in this dataset is larger than that utilised by the MMO. A grid is defined based on 1/16th of an ICES rectangle. IMARES have combined VMS with logbook data and information on fish value. Logbook data are added to VMS records to indicate those records that are associated with fishing activity. The data have also been filtered by speed.
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm
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