MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium

Remko Verspui1, Dimitri Brosens2, Tim Adriaens3, Hugo Verreycken4, Peter Desmet3, Emiel Derks1, Dimitri Brosens4

1 Ryal Dutch Angling Federation, , Netherlands; 2 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform, , Belgium; 3 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), , Belgium; 4 

Corresponding author(s): Remko Verspui (verspui@sportvisserijnederland.nl)Dimitri Brosens (dimitri.brosens@inbo.be)Tim Adriaens (tim.adriaens@inbo.be)Hugo Verreycken (hugo.verreycken@inbo.be)Peter DesmetEmiel Derks (derks@sportvisserijnederland.nl)

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Resource Citation

Verspui R, Brosens D, Adriaens T, Verreycken H, Desmet P, Derks E (2021): MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium. v1.5. Royal Dutch Angling Association. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=mijnvismaat-occurrences&v=1.5

Abstract

MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium is an occurrence dataset published by the Royal Dutch Angling Federation and the Flemish Research Institute of Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains alien freshwater fish occurrences recorded through MijnVISmaat, a mobile application used by anglers for catch registration. This app was developed and managed by the Royal Dutch Angling Association (Sportvisserij Nederland: https://www.sportvisserijnederland.nl/). With this app anglers register their catches with a smartphone to create their personal logbook of catches with location, species, length, weight, bait, depth and photos. The app also provides a social platform to share catches and information with fellow anglers. The dataset is part of an effort to mobilize alien species data for Belgium. Here it is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each record an occurrenceID, date, location, sampling protocol, the number of recorded individuals, status (present/absent) and scientific name. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/mijnvismaat-occurrences
We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. We would appreciate it if you follow the INBO norms for data use (https://www.inbo.be/en/norms-data-use) when using the data.
If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don't hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via opendata@inbo.be.

Keywords: Occurrence, freshwater, invasive species, alien species, non-native species, citizen science, angling

Project details

Project title: Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS)
Personnel: Tim Adriaens
Funding: TrIAS is funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) call for Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks (BR/165/A1/TrIAS).
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Belgium

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=mijnvismaat-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This dataset contains exotic fish species
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Belgium
Coordinates: 49°29'24''N and 51°30'36''N Latitude; 2°31'48''E and 6°24'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 2011 - July 17, 2020

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	A subset of the MijnVISmaat data - alien fish species observed in Belgium - is extracted from the original database.
- . 	Data was validated using the provided location information and photos.
- . 	A custom R script is created on the ‘raw’ MijnVISmaat data to map the original data to Darwin Core as an occurrence core.
- . 	The Darwin Core views are connected to the NLBIF IPT and documented with metadata.
- . 	The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.
Study extent description: The Royal Dutch Angling Association (Sportvisserij Nederland) animates a great sport fishing community in the Netherlands and Belgium. That community can quickly and easily register, share and analyze their catches through the app MijnVISmaat or website https://www.mijnvismaat.nl. The data in this dataset is a subset of the complete database and holds only data from alien fish in Belgium.
Sampling description: All the occurrences in this dataset are derived from fish catches (angling) by amateur fisherman in Belgium.
Quality control description: Data was validated using the provided location information and photos.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive MijnVISmaat - Exotic fish occurrences in Belgium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.nlbif.nl/archive.do?r=mijnvismaat-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2021-01-18
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-01-06
Hierarchy level: Dataset