07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:16:24 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Japan, 2017 2019-08-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f 10.5285/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f doi: Lerebours, A., Smith, J.T. (2019). Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Japan, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f Data set presents results from fish biometry field work within four lakes in Japan (Suzuuchi, Funazawa, Kashiramori, Abakuma). Data comprise sampling location, fish species, sex, length, weight (total fish, gonad and liver weight). Fish were sampled during May 2017; target species included crucian carp, common carp and smallmouth bass. For the health and reproductive status assessment, fish of similar weight and total length were collected. Gill nets (20 m length and 21 mm mesh size) were employed to ensure capture of homogeneous groups of mature fish. The work described here was conducted under the TREE project (http://tree.ceh.ac.uk/) funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, Environment Agency and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f Lerebours, A. University of Portsmouth adelaide.lerebours@port.ac.uk author Smith, J.T. University of Portsmouth Jim.smith@port.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Guler, Y. University of Portsmouth yasminguler@hotmail.com pointOfContact Environmental survey Radioecology Carp Fukushima Japan otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions © University of Portsmouth otherRestrictions © Environment Agency otherRestrictions © Radioactive Waste Management otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Lerebours, A., Smith, J.T. (2019). Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Japan, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f textTable 50 English utf8 environment biota 2017-05-08 2017-05-18 140.3 141.122 37.4 37.569 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/07347484-5d35-4335-bdbe-ac9d7b33c84f.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Fish were carefully removed from the nets and kept alive into tanks containing aerated water. Fish fell unconscious by a blow to the head and were then killed by performing a concussion of the brain to limit as much as possible the suffering as recommended by the UK Home Office procedure (Animals Scientific Procedures Act, 198618). Scales were sampled for age determination. Body weight, total length, and gonadal weight recorded for each fish. The gonads were dissected, weighted, fixed in buffered formalin solution for 24h and preserved in ethanol for later study. File uploaded is of the biometry data retrieved from the field work.