NIOZ High Tide Balgzand Fisheries Program 1974-present

Henk Van der Veer

doi:10.15468/mua7z3

NIOZ High Tide Balgzand Fisheries Program 1974-present

Citation

Van der Veer H, de Bruin T (2023). NIOZ High Tide Balgzand Fisheries Program 1974-present. Version 1.3. NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Metadata dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mua7z3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-16.

Description

The NIOZ HW fishing programme started with the PhD project of Bouwe Kuipers on the ecology of juvenile plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. in the western Wadden Sea in the beginning of the 1970s. Within the framework of this PhD project, shallow subtidal and intertidal areas were sampled and for this, a commercial fishing gear for catching adult flatfish, a Dutch beam trawl, was downscaled to a 2 m beam trawl that could be handled and towed with small rubber dinghies by a single or by 2 persons. This 2 m beam trawl showed to be highly efficient in catching juvenile plaice and other epibenthic species. Most of the work on juvenile plaice was carried out at Balgzand, a large (~50 km2) intertidal area in the western Dutch Wadden Sea. Starting with sampling squares, within a few years sampling changed into a system of 9 transects each consisting of 4 hauls. Over the last 35 years, regular biweekly to monthly surveys have been carried in more than 20 years.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes
common name: Fishes rank: speciesAggregate

Geographic Coverages

Balgzand intertidal, Marsdiep tidal basin

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Henk Van der Veer
originator
position: Head of Department
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
email: veer@nioz.nl
homepage: http://www.nioz.nl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5035-661X

Taco de Bruin
metadata author
position: Scientific Data Manager
NIOZ
email: taco.de.bruin@nioz.nl
homepage: http://www.nioz.nl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-2095

Henk Van der Veer
administrative point of contact
position: Head of Department
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
email: veer@nioz.nl
homepage: http://www.nioz.nl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5035-661X