DOI: 10.14466/CefasDataHub.144

Description

DAPSTOM (integrated database and portal for fish stomach records) is an ongoing initiative (supported by Defra and the EU) to digitise and make available fish stomach content records spanning the past 100 years. In this latest iteration (Version 6.3) an additional 26,767 records for 122,137 individual predator stomachs have been added to the dataset (including 31,488 cod stomachs), bringing the total up to 283,121 records from 481,476 stomachs and 741 distinct research cruises/sampling campaigns. Data are available for 210 predator species and a huge swathe of the Northeast Atlantic, but particularly the North Sea, Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and area around Spitzbergen. Records span the period 1836 to 2023, and the database encompasses individuals ranging in size from 0.1 cm (a herring larva) to 768 cm for a basking shark caught in 1947.

The DAPSTOM database (version 1) was originally created in 2007. It has been used to parameterise multispecies fisheries models and to develop ecosystem indicators, with a focus on ‘food-webs’, as well as basic investigations into the underlying biology of particular species. Most datasets were derived from scientists log-books or reports contained within the Cefas archive, others were donated by ‘partners’ or were digitised from published peer-reviewed papers, with specific relevance to the British Isles. This update to DAPSTOM has been funded via the European Union under project “SC10 – Study on stomach content of fish to update databases and analyse possible changes in diet or food webs interactions” (EASME/EMFF/2018/011). The intention is that the DAPSTOM Version 6.3 database will be made searchable and freely available to users via a dedicated R-shiny interface.

Contributors

Pinnegar, John K. / Cooper, Keith, M. / Thompson, Murray S.A.

Subject

Fish / Fish behaviour

Start Date

24/02/1836

End Date

Year Published

2023

Version

1

Citation

Pinnegar, Cooper & Thompson (2023). DAPSTOM (integrated database and portal for fish stomach records). Cefas, UK. V1. doi: https://doi.org/10.14466/CefasDataHub.144

Rights List

Open Government Licence

DOI

10.14466/CefasDataHub.144