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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Benthic survey versus monitoring, a comparison of aims and methodologies
The terms survey and monitoring are often used interchangeably when collecting data on the marine environment. More worryingly there is sometimes a blurring of the differences between the aims and methods required for descriptive surveys and data collection as part … Continue reading
Posted in Seabed survey and monitoring
Tagged benthic monitoring, benthic survey, benthic survey versus monitoring, diver monitoring, marine monitoring, photographic monitoring, survey vs monitoring, video monitoring
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Lyme Bay, Lane’s Ground Reef: sponge species recovery and opportunities lost
As part of a small study looking in to gear impacts on seabed species, we recently conducted a few dives attempting to record HD video of bottom trawls and crab pots working on the seabed. Unfortunately we picked a period … Continue reading
Posted in Lyme Bay marine ecology
Tagged bottom fishing impacts, bottom trawling impacts, Lyme Bay, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay closed area monitoring, Lyme Bay exclusion zone, lyme Bay protected area, Lyme Bay Reefs, mobile fishing gear impacts, scallop dredging, scallop dredging impacts, sponge assemblages, sponge communities
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