Analysis of existing data to study effects of towed fishing gears
What the buyer wrote
Determining whether change to a feature within a Marine Protected Area (MPA) has occurred from natural variation or has arisen from anthropogenic impacts, such as from towed mobile gear, is a question that is particularly prudent during the current phase of implementing management measures for UK MPAs. Management decisions need to be based on sound evidence and understanding and meet the conservation objective caveat “subject to natural change/processes”. The aims of this project are to, (i) review and recommend metrics and data analysis methods to test for the effects of natural disturbance in mobile sedimentary habitats (e.g. sandbanks) in the UK at small, local scales (such as within …
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- What the buyer calls it
- Analysis of existing data to study effects of towed fishing gears
- How they are buying
- Advertised, shortlist firstSuppliers applied to be considered, and the buyer picked who went on to bid.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 30 Nov 2015
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2016
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Neil Rowlands was the named contact on this notice.