Sealife Tracker

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Description

The Sealife Tracker project is a collaboration between the The Environment Agency, the Marine Biological Association, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, the British Sub -Aqua Club and the University of Bristol. These organisations have joined forces to help study the climate change indicator species and some of the UK's most problematic invasive, non-native marine species. Species Covered include: Trigger Fish Balistes capriscus Red Blenny Parablennius ruber Black-faced blenny Tripterygion delaisi John Dory Zeus faber Wolf fish Anarhichas lupus Sunfish Mola mola Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas Slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata Leathery sea squirt Styela clava Compass Sea Squirt Asterocarpa humilis Spiny spider crab Maja squinado Yellow staghorn sponge Axinella dissimilis Elegant sea slug Okenia elegans Cotton spinner sea cucumber Holuthuria forskali Deeplet sea anemone Bolocera tuediae Purple sunstar Solaster endeca Northern Stone crab Lithodes maia Wakame Undaria pinnatifida Wireweed Sargassum muticum Harpoon Weed Asparagopsis armata Rainbow Wrack Cystoseira tamariscifolia Orange Tipped Sea Squirt Corella eumyota Orange stripped anemone Diadumene lineata Brush Clawed Shore Crab Hemigrapsus takanoi Asian Shore Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus

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The main aims are to crowd source data on a number of high priority climate change indicator and invasive species. There is currently a lack of information on many marine species and with your help we hope to build a much more accurate picture of what is happening in our seas. The project will also be providing raw data to those that need it most in (almost) real time.

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