Species distributions from English Celtic Sea groundfish surveys, 1992–2003

Cefas has carried out a trawl survey of the shelf and the shelf slope to the southwest of the British Isles since 1981. The results (for selected species) of surveys carried out in December and March from December 1984 to December 1988, and in March only from 1989 to 1991, are described by Warnes and Jones (1995). The present report describes the surveys from March 1992 to March 2003, and includes distribution maps for the main species caught by the survey.