Sandeel

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Sandeel

File:Layer Sandeel.png
Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Fish

Description

Sandeels

Habitat: Demersal
Main role: Prey
Trophic level: 3 – 3,5

Diet: Their diet is dominated by zooplankton, but polychaetes, meiofauna and other small benthos have also an important role.

Threats: Of commercial interest. They are caught in large quantities by specialized industrial fisheries.

European sprat

Habitat: Pelagic
Main role: Prey
Trophic level: 3

Diet: zooplankton.

Threats: Highly commercial. Sprats are caught by various trawl gear and seine nets, and are often preserved by smoking. Juvenile sprats are marketed as whitebait. However, the larger part of the international catch is used in the fishmeal industry.

MSP Challenge

Sandeel and sprat are part of one single data layer. This is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE).

Different pressures generate by human activities (noise, bottom disturbance, surface disturbance, artificial substrate) have different, complex effects on marine species in terms of movement, survival and procreation.

Sandeel and sprat are caught by all fishing fleets, but mostly by industrial and pelagic trawl.

Types

• Very Low Density
• Low Density
• Medium Density
• High Density
• Very High Density

Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd North Sea

Methodology

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Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Baltic Sea Edition.

Types

• Extremely Low
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Extra High

Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

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Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Eastern Mediterranean Sea Edition.