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HMAP - History of Marine Animal Populations Database

Entry ID: OBIS_HMAP

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Summary

Abstract: The HMAP database (http://www.hull.ac.uk/hmap) is an open access facility that currently comprises time series of commercial catches covering the period 1611-2000. It is a growing resource and extends more that 240,000 records and more than 100 species. Data are mostly recovered from archives, tax records, custom records or surveys. The facility includes a web guide to the database (the Data ...

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 85.0

S: 51.32

E: 154.18

W: -67.78

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: HMAP

Dataset Title: HMAP - History of Marine Animal Populations Database

Dataset Release Date: 2002

Dataset Release Place: Hull, United Kingdom

Dataset Publisher: M.G Barnard, N. Ascroft, J.H Nicholls (Comp.) HMAP Database

Data Presentation Form: database

Online Resource: http://www.hull.ac.uk/hmap/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1611-01-01

Stop Date: 1999-12-31

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES

OCEANS > AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Instrument

TRAWL

Project

OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE

HMAP > History of Marine Animal Populations

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 obissupport@marine.rutgers.edu the full citation of any publication made (printed or electronic) that cites OBIS or any constituent part.

Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS.

Ancillary Keywords

Megaptera novaeangliae

Salmo salar

fin whale

Lobster

Originating Center

History of Animal Populations, Hull, England

Data Center

International Ocean Biogeographic Information System

Data Center URL: http://www.iobis.org/

Data Center Personnel
Name: EDWARD VANDEN BERGHE Phone: (732) 932-6555 x 565 Fax: (732) 932-8578 Email: evberghe at marine.rutgers.edu, evberghe at iobis.org Contact Address: Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Rutgers University 71 Dudley Road City: New Brunswick Province or State: NJ Postal Code: 08901-8521 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Format: OBIS Schema

Fees: None

Personnel

ANNE HUSUM MARBOE

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Email: marboe at ruc.dk

Contact Address:

Roskilde University

Country: DENMARK

MICHAELA BARNARD

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Fax: +44 (0)1482 305115

Email: m.g.barnard at hull.ac.uk

Contact Address:

Maritime Historical Studies Centre,

Blaydes House, 6 High Street

City: Hull

Postal Code: HU1 1HA

Country: England

Publications/References

Abundance indices for main commercial fish species caught by trawl from the south-eastern Australian continental shelf from 1918 to 1957 by Neil Klaer in Marine and Freshwater Research 55(6) 561-571. Klaer, N.L. 2001.

Steam trawl catches from south eastern Australia from 1918 to 1957: trends in catch rates and species composition. Marine and Freshwater Research Vol 52, ... 399-410.

Tull, M., Polacheck, T. and Klaer, N. 2001. The Potential for Historical Studies of Fisheries in Australia and New Zealand. In: Poul Holm, Tim D. Smith and David J. Starkey (eds.) The Exploited Seas - New Directions for Marine Environmental History. St. John's, Newfoundland.

Lajus, D., J. Lajus, Z. Dmitrieva, A. Kraikovski, D. A. Alexandrov. 2005. The use of historical catch data to trace the influence of climate on fish populations: examples from the White and Barents Sea fisheries in the 17th and 18th centuries In ICES Journal of Marine Science, The influence of climate change on North Atlantic fish stocks, Volume 62, Issue 7, October 2005, pp 1426-1435.

Kraikovski A., Dmitrieva Z., Lajus D., Lajus Ju. 2003. The natural riches of the region - the legends and the reality. The case of the salmon fisheries of the Russian North before the 19 c. In Dealing with Diversity. 2nd International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Prague 2003. Proceedings. Praha: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Dep. of Social Geography and Regional Development, pp. 91-94.

Lajus Ju., Alekseeva Ya., Davydov R., Dmitrieva Z., Kraikovski A., Lajus D., Lapin V., Mokievsky V., Yurchenko A. and Alexandrov D. 2001. Status and potential of historical and ecological studies of Russian fisheries in the White and Barents Seas: the case of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). In Poul Holm, Tim D. Smith and David J. Starkey (eds.), The Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History. St. John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2001. Research in Maritime History No. 21, pp. 67-96.

MacKenzie et al. 2002. Baltic Sea Fisheries in Previous Centuries: Development of Catch data Series and Preliminary Interpredations of Causes of Fluctuations ICES C.M. 2002/L:02.

MacKenzie, Brian R., J. Alheit, D.J. Conley, P. Holm, C.C. Kinze, Ecological hypothesis for a historical reconstructin of upper trophic level biomass in the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59:173-190, 2002.

Smith, T. D., J. Allen, P. J. Clapham, P. S. Hammond, S. Katona, F. Larsen, J. Lien, D. Mattila, P. J. Palsbøll, J. Sigurjónsson, P. T. Stevick, and N. Øien. 1999. An ocean-basin-wide mark-recapture study of the North Atlantic humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Mar. Mamm. Sci. 15: 1-32.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2005-11-25

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-12-23

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