DATRAS

Data access

ICES operates an open access data policy adopted by the ICES Council in 2006. To read more click here.

The trawl survey data held at ICES is overseen by the trawl survey working groups that contribute the data from their national offices. One of these co-ordinating working group (the IBTSWG), specified how data are accessed in the IBTSWG reports 2003-2007. Extracts of the data access discussion can be found here and a summary is given below:

Aggregated data and raw data are freely available to download from the data products page on DATRAS.

Each data download is accompanied by a data acknowledgement text file that describes any known issues in the data and further advice should the data user be in doubt about how to interpret and use the data they have downloaded.