Seasearch Reports

What do we do with all the Seasearch data?

You can find all our reports here.

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Regional Reports

Taxonomic Reports

Commissioned Research

Peer-reviewed literature

Annual Reports

Each year Seasearch produces a report summarising the key data analyses and points of interest. Download these using the buttons below.

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2019

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Regional Reports

We've produced numerous reports which cover the complete geographical area where Seasearch operates - Britain, Ireland and the local Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. There are also reports for specific Marine Protected Areas. Find these by following the links below.

Scotland

England

Wales

Ireland

Channel Islands

Marine Protected Areas

Taxonomic Reports

We've produced numerous reports which cover specific taxa, including sea fans, native oysters, crawfish, fireworks anemones, maerl and seagrass. Find these by following the links below.

Seafans

Crawfish

Seagrass

Fireworks anemones

Maerl

Commissioned Research

We have done a range of research work commissioned by national conservation agencies. Reports on this work are available via the links here.

Taxonomic composition and recording of priority habitat maerl using citizen science data (Natural England: 2024)

Bayesian occupancy models for populations of crawfish Palinus elephas (Natural England: 2023)

Assemblage composition in key habitats of Marine Protected Areas (Natural England: 2023)

Benthic assemblages in Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds MCZ (Natural England: 2022)

Seasearch England: Scoping report for mis-placed records and other errors (Natural England: 2021)

Seasearch Wales: Data Evaluation and Cleansing (NRW: 2020)

Palinurus elephas (spiny lobster/crawfish/ crayfish) in the South-West (Natural England: 2018)

Peer-reviewed Literature

Seasearch data has been used to produce papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Find these by following the links below.

Spatial and temporal variability of common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, L. spawning grounds off North Europe (Laptikhovsky et al. 2023, not open access)

Bayesian occupancy modelling of benthic Crustacea and the recovery of the European spiny lobster, Palinurus elephas (Jackson 2022, open access)

Pink sea fans (Eunicella verrucosa) as indicators of the spatial efficacy of Marine Protected Areas in southwest UK coastal waters (Pikesley et al. 2016, open access)

Benthic marine biodiversity patterns across the United Kingdom and Ireland determined from recreational diver observations (Bull et al. 2013, not open access)

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