MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium
Citation
Verspui R, Brosens D, Adriaens T, Verreycken H, Desmet P, Derks E (2021). MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium. Version 1.5. Royal Dutch Angling Association. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6va6gm accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-22.Description
MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium is an occurrence dataset published by the Royal Dutch Angling Federation and the Flemish Research Institute of Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains alien freshwater fish occurrences recorded through MijnVISmaat, a mobile application used by anglers for catch registration. This app was developed and managed by the Royal Dutch Angling Association (Sportvisserij Nederland: https://www.sportvisserijnederland.nl/). With this app anglers register their catches with a smartphone to create their personal logbook of catches with location, species, length, weight, bait, depth and photos. The app also provides a social platform to share catches and information with fellow anglers. The dataset is part of an effort to mobilize alien species data for Belgium. Here it is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each record an occurrenceID, date, location, sampling protocol, the number of recorded individuals, status (present/absent) and scientific name. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/mijnvismaat-occurrences We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. We would appreciate it if you follow the INBO norms for data use (https://www.inbo.be/en/norms-data-use) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don't hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via opendata@inbo.be.Sampling Description
Study Extent
The Royal Dutch Angling Association (Sportvisserij Nederland) animates a great sport fishing community in the Netherlands and Belgium. That community can quickly and easily register, share and analyze their catches through the app MijnVISmaat or website https://www.mijnvismaat.nl. The data in this dataset is a subset of the complete database and holds only data from alien fish in Belgium.Sampling
All the occurrences in this dataset are derived from fish catches (angling) by amateur fisherman in Belgium.Quality Control
Data was validated using the provided location information and photos.Method steps
- A subset of the MijnVISmaat data - alien fish species observed in Belgium - is extracted from the original database.
- Data was validated using the provided location information and photos.
- A custom R script is created on the ‘raw’ MijnVISmaat data to map the original data to Darwin Core as an occurrence core.
- The Darwin Core views are connected to the NLBIF IPT and documented with metadata.
- The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.
Taxonomic Coverages
This dataset contains exotic fish species
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Animaliarank: kingdom
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Chordatarank: phylum
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Actinopterygiirank: class
Geographic Coverages
Belgium
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Remko Verspuioriginator
Ryal Dutch Angling Federation
NL
email: verspui@sportvisserijnederland.nl
Dimitri Brosens
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-911
Tim Adriaens
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200
Hugo Verreycken
originator
email: hugo.verreycken@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2060-7005
Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
Emiel Derks
originator
Ryal Dutch Angling Federation
NL
email: derks@sportvisserijnederland.nl
Dimitri Brosens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116
Remko Verspui
metadata author
Ryal Dutch Angling Federation
NL
email: verspui@sportvisserijnederland.nl
Dimitri Brosens
user
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
Remko Verspui
administrative point of contact
Ryal Dutch Angling Federation
NL
email: verspui@sportvisserijnederland.nl
Tim Adriaens
administrative point of contact
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200