Sampling event

IMR Occurrences of fish from research and rental vessels from 2000

Latest version published by Institute of Marine Research on 13 May 2026 Institute of Marine Research
Occurrences of fish (Elasmobranchii (aphia 10193) and Actinopteri (aphia 843664)) from IMR research and rental vessels from 2000. Individuals collected using a variety of fishing gear types. It contains data from multiple cruises with different target species/assemblages and methodologies that have changed over time. User is strongly advised to consider this limitation when using and interpreting the data.
Publication date:
13 May 2026
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 65,203 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Event (core)
    65203
  • Occurrence 
    521005

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

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Data as a DwC-A file download 65,203 records in English (12 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (11 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (7 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

IMR(2025). IMR Occurrences of fish from research and rental vessels from 2000. Version 1.12. Dataset. https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=imr_fish_catch

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Institute of Marine Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3f8c5321-4081-46fc-84ef-27c12735c3a5.  Institute of Marine Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

occurrence; samplingEvent

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Arnfinn Morvik
Data manager
Institute of Marine Research
NO
Rocío Castaño Primo
Data manager
Institute of Marine Research
NO

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Arnfinn Morvik
Data manager
Institute of Marine Research
NO

Who filled in the metadata:

Arnfinn Morvik
Data manager
Institute of Marine Research
NO
Rocío Castaño Primo
Institute of Marine Research
NO

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Arnfinn Morvik
Data Manager
Institute of Marine Research
NO

Geographic Coverage

Nordic Seas, Barents Sea, North Sea, Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-68.921, -60.822], North East [81.977, 51.255]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom  Animalia
Phylum  Chordata
Class  Teleostei
Order  Gobiiformes,  Carangiformes,  Pleuronectiformes,  Gadiformes,  Syngnathiformes,  Salmoniformes,  Perciformes,  Eupercaria incertae sedis
Family  Cottidae,  Syngnathidae,  Gadidae,  Gobiidae,  Triglidae,  Salmonidae,  Pleuronectidae,  Carangidae,  Labridae,  Gasterosteidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2000-01-01 / 2025-12-31

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 3f8c5321-4081-46fc-84ef-27c12735c3a5
https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=imr_fish_catch