Monitoring

Pelagic Monitoring Sites

UK marine plankton monitoring is delivered in a partially ad hoc way by many organisations primarily:

Executive & regulatory Agencies

• Environment Agency (EA)
• National Resources Wales. (NRW)
• Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government (previously MSS)
• Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS)
• Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) through Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), Northern Ireland
• Department of Environment, Food & Agriculture, Isle of Man Government

Learned Societies & Academic institutions

• Marine Biological Association (MBA)
• Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
• Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
• Dove Time Series (Newcastle University)

These have evolved over time due to changing needs and resources. Consequently for a UK time series there are significant gaps that were identified by the PelCap project (for example there was a complete lack of inshore zooplankton data).

Broader UK monitoring map

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Our Monitoring Reports

For each year of the project we have collected monitoring data, these reports summarise and highlight methods and findings.