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This winter cruise forms part of the Groundfish Survey programme which is an annual 6 week fish trawl survey held in the 4th quarter of the year that has an essential aim to examine the composition and abundance of fish species in the waters surrounding Ireland. This major...
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Northwest Herring Acoustic Survey Blue Whiting Gear Trials. The aim of the cruise was to test the gear and report any problems encountered with fish handling/wet lab.
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EnvironmentAs part of a large HEA funded PTRLI cycle 3 marine program currently underway at NUI, Galway ,a Multi-disciplinary survey of the deep waters west and north of Porcupine Bank was carried out, involving hydrographic measurements (including mooring and float deployment), deep...
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EnvironmentAn acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in 2017. Spawning takes place from January through to April along the shelf edge from the southern Porcupine Bank area northwards to the...
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EnvironmentThe INtegrated Mapping FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s MArine Resource (INFOMAR) programme is a joint venture between the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute (MI). The programme is a successor to the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) and...
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CTD or Conductivity Temperature Depth stations measure temperature, conductivity and depth of the water column at various depths from the surface to within 10m of the seafloor. A CTD is the oceanographic instrument used to determine the conductivity, temperature, and depth of...
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CE17011 Fisheries Acoustic Survey - The Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) L...Marine InstituteEnvironmentThe Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) survey program is the consolidation of two existing survey programs carried out by Fisheries Ecosystems Advisory Service (FEAS) in the Marine Institute. The Main Shelf herring acoustic survey has been carried out...
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EnvironmentComplete dataset of selected Underway observations and measurements include sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, raw fluorometer voltage, air temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, vessel sounding and vessel navigation...
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EnvironmentThis survey took place on board the RV Celtic Explorer in February 2017 led by the Marine Institute. The south Rockall Trough cruise facilitates long-term monitoring of the deep water environment to the west of Ireland. Oceanographic data collected contributes to the Atlantic...
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Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The...
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EnvironmentAccording to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the landward side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters, except in archipelagic states. It includes waterways such as rivers and canals, and sometimes the...
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SUPERSEDED - The version has been superseded. And a new edition is now available under the Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, fourth edition, 2024. This atlas provides a series of detailed maps of commercial fishing activity around Ireland with the aim of providing...
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Nephrops norvegicus are common around the Irish coast, occurring in geographically distinct sandy or muddy areas where the sediment is suitable for construction of their burrow dwellings. The Marine Institute carries out Underwater TV surveys annually of commercially important...
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The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of...
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The Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance (AORA) between Canada, the European Union and the United States was launched by the signatories of the Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation in May 2013. This dataset is bathymetry data that was collected on various surveys from...
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The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of...
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A requirement of the Water Framework Directive is that benthic macro-invertebrates must be sampled from coastal and transitional waters at least twice within a river basin cycle (6 years) in order to classify these waterbodies. Numerous samples will be taken from sites in...
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The ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System) hydrodynamic model is run for a domain that covers the Irish waters in the northeast Atlantic. The ROMS model also includes two nested models with a horizontal resolution of 200-250m. The nested models are: Bantry Bay Model - Particle...
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The ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System) hydrodynamic model is run for a domain that covers the Irish waters in the northeast Atlantic. The model has a mean horizontal resolution of 1.9 km and 40 terrain-following vertical layers. The system produces a best estimate of the...
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Water quality and meteorological data from the Lough Feeagh Automatic Water Quality Monitoring St...Marine InstituteEnvironmentLough Feeagh is a deep humic (brown coloured) lake, typical of many lakes in the west of Ireland. This dataset consists of data from the AWQMS (automatic water quality monitoring station) situated in Lough Feeagh, which is run as part of the Marine Institute’s BurrishooleLTER...
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