National fish tag database

Occurrence
Latest version published by Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on Feb 1, 2025 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Publication date:
1 February 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Data as a DwC-A file download 34,151 records in Norwegian (2 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
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Description

National database of tagged salmonids (Atlantic salmon, brown trout and Arctic char). Carlin tags (smolt) and Lea tags (adult fish) from various tagging projects in Norway. Recapture of released fish.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 34,151 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
34151
MeasurementOrFacts 
68302

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Finstad, B. (2015): Fish tag database. v1. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.nina.no/ipt/resource?r=fiskmerk&v=1.0

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 84b9a51f-ec2e-41dc-9d7a-1e3aa411b939.  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

Contacts

Roald Vang
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
NINA
Bengt Finstad
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
Senior Research Scientist

Geographic Coverage

Norway

Bounding Coordinates South West [57.968, 4.511], North East [71.089, 30.848]

Taxonomic Coverage

Salmonidae identified to species

Class Actinopterygii
Family Salmonidae (Laksefisk)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1938-current

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 84b9a51f-ec2e-41dc-9d7a-1e3aa411b939
https://ipt.nina.no/resource?r=fiskmerk