Groundfish Surveys
The Irish Groundfish Survey forms part of the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) programme, an international survey effort coordinated by ICES (the International Council of the Exploration of the Sea). Over 42 days in the Autumn/Winter each year the survey collects demersal trawl and ancillary data in Irish waters to produce relative abundance indices for fisheries management. The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) in its current form commenced in 2003 on the 65m research vessel, the R.V. Celtic Explorer. In Irish waters currently, France and Ireland cover the Celtic Sea area, Ireland covers the shelf West of Ireland, Ireland and the UK Scotland cover the north coast of Ireland and the UK Northern Ireland covers the Irish Sea.
Data and resources
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CSVERDDAP Open
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Web interface for selecting variables, filters, and output format. Generates API queries and allows immediate download of custom subsets. Users may optionally…ERDDAP Open
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Marine Institute home pageHTML Open
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Marine Institute home pageHTML Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2003-01-01 – ongoing |
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| Date (publication) | 2020-02-18 |
| Date (creation) | 2020-02-18 |
| Date (revision) | 2026-07-10 |
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | While every effort is made in preparing the dataset no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the Marine Institute for any errors, omissions or misleading information. The Marine Institute accepts no responsibility for loss or damage occasioned or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting, or refraining from acting as a result of a matter contained in this datasets or as a consequence of using this dataset for any purpose whatsoever. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-04 |
| Created | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |