Seasearch Crawfish, Palinurus elephas, Surveys

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This survey was carried out to gather information regarding the numbers and distribution of Crawfish throughout Britain and Ireland. The dataset consists of records of sightings of Palinurus elephas by scuba divers. This dataset consists of records of sightings of Palinurus elephas or Crawfish by scuba divers. The welsh records from 1969 - 2009 were obtained from logbook entries made by divers. Data from 2009 onwards is from entries made by divers on the Seasearch online Crawfish observation site. It should be noted that other observations of crawfish made during wider Seasearch surveys are included in the Seasearch Marine Surveys database and are not duplicated here. Data has been provided by volunteer divers and does not attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of distribution of crawfish either spatially or temporarily. There can be high confidence in the accuracy of the records made as crawfish is an easily identified species, however, absence of records will in part be due to sporadic nature of recording. Further information available from the Seasearch Coordinator (Chris Wood).

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Temporal extent	1969-01-01 – ongoing
Date (publication)	2013-01-11
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show