Assuming that your unmanned autonomous vehicle is based at Lowestoft in Suffolk, where would be the best place to send it fishing?
Your answer should consider profit maximisation, sustainability and logistics. Please provide data and illustrations to support your conclusions. Please document any assumptions that you make.
You are asked to present your conclusions at an investor event scheduled for Thursday evening.
We have provided a selection of data sets for you to use (see Figure 1 for an overview), but you are free to use any available data. Please acknowledge the source of any additional data that you use.
Figure 1, Data overview. ICES grid squares shown in yellow. Wind turbines and oil and gas platforms shown as black dots. Marine protected areas shown in red. UK maritime limits shown in green.
See JNCC MPA mapper and UK Hydrographic Office Maritime Limits and Boundaries.
UK_Hydrographic_Office_Maritime_Limits_and_Boundaries.zip
Shapefile. No licence specified.
See JNCC MPA mapper and UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas 2020
c20201214-OffshoreMPAs-WGS84.zip
Shapefile. No licence specified.
MMO_UnitedKingdomFishLandingsbyICESRectangleAllVessels2016_SHP_Full.zip
Shapefile. Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown Copyright 2019.
british-isles
These data were extracted from the GADM database (www.gadm.org), version 2.5, July 2015. They can be used for non-commercial purposes only. It is not allowed to redistribute these data, or use them for commercial purposes, without prior consent.
Oil and gas platforms platforms.csv.
Wind farms wind-farms.csv.
See ADMIRALTY Marine Data Portal.
These data were extracted and down-sampled from the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office infrastructure data set. The files contain Crown Copyright data kindly provided by special permission of United Kingdom Hydrographic Office and must not be copied, made public or used for any purposes except this exercise. They are not included in this repo, but are available from Rob Blackwell on request.
Please note that this an exercise for training purposes. All concepts portrayed in the materials are fictitious. No identification with actual Cefas projects or policies is intended or should be inferred.
The materials are provided for training purposes only and must not be copied, made public or used for any purposes except this exercise.