Description
This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network and Marine Scotland Science (MSS) PrePARED, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e. the location and date when the tagged animal was released, and summarized detection events of tagged individuals. If readers are interested in the source dataset they may also inquire with the project PIs as listed here or on the OTN web site (https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=V2LPREP).
Abstract:The PrePARED project aims to improve our understanding of predator-prey interactions around offshore wind farms to reduce uncertainty in impact assessments and improve models of seabird, marine mammal, and fish distribution. This collaborative project involves nine organisations and focuses on prey availability (fish) as a key factor in predator distribution around wind farm infrastructure. Between 2022-2025, telemetry studies, using gadoid fish (including Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), whiting (Merlangius merlangus) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)) are being carried out in the Moray Firth. The project focuses on prey distribution, abundance, diversity and biomass investigating "reef effects" caused by offshore wind farms and their potential to support fish biomass aggregation or production. Marine mammal distribution and behaviour is also monitored alongside fish data, assessing how the construction and operation of wind farms and environmental factors influence predator spatial distribution.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 443,482 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Stainer, P., Bicknell, A., Witt, M., Main, R. 2022. Predator and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (PrePARED) will focus on how the dynamic balance of both predators and prey and how each varie around renewable energy developments. Fish aggregation around new installations, while not novel, is a phenomenon worth investigating at newly constructed windfarm sites particularly where it may lead to an increase in top predators foraging there.. Accessed via the Ocean Tracking Network OBIS IPT on INSERT DATE
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ocean Tracking Network. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 097b3bd2-55e2-49cb-96a7-bebad5f4bd14. Ocean Tracking Network publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
ACOUSTIC TAGS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH; Occurrence; Samplingevent; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| PrePARED | https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=V2LPREP ASCII HTM |
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Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Data Manager
- Dalhousie University
- +1 (902) 494-4101
- Content Provider ●
- Principal Investigator
http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6577-3847
- Content Provider ●
- Principal Investigator
- Content Provider
- Content Provider
Geographic Coverage
HIGHLAND, MORAY, ABERDEENSHIRE
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [56.44, -7.87], North East [59.47, -0.79] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Species included below are tagged by this project and have left any embargo. Other individuals or species may later be appended to this dataset.
| Species | Merlangius merlangus (whiting), Melanogrammus aeglefinus (haddock), Gadus morhua (Atlantic cod) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-04-01 / 2026-12-01 |
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Project Data
The PrePARED project aims to improve our understanding of predator-prey interactions around offshore wind farms to reduce uncertainty in impact assessments and improve models of seabird, marine mammal, and fish distribution. This collaborative project involves nine organisations and focuses on prey availability (fish) as a key factor in predator distribution around wind farm infrastructure. Between 2022-2025, telemetry studies, using gadoid fish (including Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), whiting (Merlangius merlangus) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)) are being carried out in the Moray Firth. The project focuses on prey distribution, abundance, diversity and biomass investigating "reef effects" caused by offshore wind farms and their potential to support fish biomass aggregation or production. Marine mammal distribution and behaviour is also monitored alongside fish data, assessing how the construction and operation of wind farms and environmental factors influence predator spatial distribution.
| Title | Predator and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (PrePARED) |
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| Funding | No funding information for this project was provided to OTN for publication. OTN is a research and technology development initiative headquartered at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. OTN is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and is grateful to have once received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). |
| Study Area Description | No study area description for this project was provided to OTN for publication. |
| Design Description | A wide range of aquatic species are tagged with small electronic transmitters, surgically implanted or attached externally, which can operate for up to 20 years. Acoustic receivers arranged in line on the ocean floor as well as attached to buoys, gliders and large animals (e.g. grey seals) pick up the coded acoustic signals from these tags identifying each tagged sea creature that passes within half a kilometer of the receiver. Data collected by these listening stations are subsequently uploaded to one of many compatible data nodes, adding to the reach of an intercompatible network of networks designed and maintained by the Ocean Tracking Network, producing current and reliable records for every part of the globe. Certain classes of electronic tags and listening equipment (receivers) may also be outfitted or co-located with sensors to measure the ocean's temperature, depth, salinity, currents, chemistry, and other properties. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Acoustic tags released.
| Study Extent | Program started 2022-04-01 and ran until 2026-12-01 |
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| Quality Control | OTN species names are verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). If species names on new data cannot be verified against (a) known valid names in OTN, and/or (b) WoRMs the Data Provider will be notified so they can check they are correct. Names that cannot be placed after checking with WoRMS are, where possible, placed on the basis of other authoritative sources, such as the Fishbase or ITIS; and once completely verified a request will be sent to WoRMS for addition of the verified species name. http://members.oceantrack.org/data/discovery/byspecies |
Method step description:
- This resource was created by the Ocean Tracking Network Data Centre as a summarized representation of animal presence determined by electronic tagging efforts. Darwin Core (DwC) records were extracted from the OTN database and filtered and summarized according to international agreed-upon standards.
Bibliographic Citations
- Stainer, P., Bicknell, A., Witt, M., Main, R. 2022. Predator and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (PrePARED) will focus on how the dynamic balance of both predators and prey and how each varie around renewable energy developments. Fish aggregation around new installations, while not novel, is a phenomenon worth investigating at newly constructed windfarm sites particularly where it may lead to an increase in top predators foraging there. In: Ocean Tracking Network Data Centre, Halifax Canada / otndc@dal.ca Retrieved: 2026-02-09 from db.load.oceantrack.org
Additional Metadata
Access Constraints: none Use Constraints: Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing databases in the form appearing in the 'Citation' field thereof (if any); and acknowledge the use of the OBIS facility. For information purposes, email to info@obis.org the full citation of any publication made (printed or electronic) that cites OBIS or any constituent part. Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS. See https://manual.obis.org/policy.html#disclaimer for more details
| Purpose | These data are for display on the OBIS portal and associated mapping programs and for download to personal computers for ad-hoc end-user analysis. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 10.14286/lvfigm |
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