title: More bang for your monitoring bucks: Detection and reporting of non-indigenous species.
abstract: 'Collect once, use often' is a frequently cited principle in both national and international efforts to promote the collection, archiving and sharing of marine monitoring data. Since the implementation of the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) evidence collection programme, 67 recommended MCZ sites have been visited and a suite of marine data collected. Here we present how this dataset was utilised outside of the MCZ programme to identify occurrences of non-indigenous species (NIS) around the UK coast. One hundred and thirty-five aquatic species from the Non-native Species Information Portal (NNSIP) register were used to produce a standard list of NIS against which, infauna and epifaunal data records from the MCZ project were compared. A total of 20 NIS were identified across 42 of the 67 sites surveyed. This study demonstrates that with sufficient coordination and management data collected for other purposes can be easily utilised to address additional policy requirements.
authors: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK. Electronic address: Paul.Whomersley@cefas.co.uk.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Whomersley
authors: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK.
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Murray
authors: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: McIlwaine
authors: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Stephens
authors: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Barrack Road, The Nothe, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, UK.
authors: P D
authors: PD
authors: Stebbing
mesh_terms: D059001:Aquatic Organisms; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D058735:Environmental Policy; D058865:Introduced Species
keywords: Data; Invasive species; MCZ; Monitoring; Policy