Thanks Owen -- and thanks to Clive for suggesting UCL (I'll try to
follow that up). Your links below look promising, and I'll see how
I manage to get on. Any further suggestions will still be welcome!
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
On 23-Apr-2017 21:11:52 Owen Boswarva wrote:
> Environment Agency should be the responsible body … I agree their data is
> more difficult to find than it used to be; they publish more open data now,
> but it's in more locations.
>
> I suggest starting with the Water Quality Archive (which includes
> pollution), the Catchment Explorer (for WFD measures) and any datasets
> based on the National Fish Population Database (for fish populations):
>
> http://environment.data.gov.uk/water-quality/view/landing
> http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/
> https://data.gov.uk/data/search?q=%22National+Fish+Populations+Database%22
>
>
> Owen
>
> On 23 April 2017 at 20:57, Ted Harding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Greetings all!
>> Not sure how closely on-topic this may be (though there is
>> a radical motive behind it).
>>
>> I'm seeking good data on pollution of East Anglian waterways,
>> and the sizes of their fish populations (all fresh water,
>> such as rivers, major drainage channels, etc.), preferably
>> per year up to 2016 (or 2017).
>>
>> I've tried the Environment Agency website, and DEFRA, without
>> finding anything remotely useful -- they used to be relatively
>> transparent, but recently seem to have become opaque! (Or maybe
>> my browser needs an eye test...).
>>
>> My primary area of interest is Cambridgeshire, West Norfolk,
>> and possibly South Lincolnshire (basically, whatever feeds
>> into the Wash).
>>
>> So if anyone can point me to a good data source (ideally a
>> monitoring agency) I would be most obliged.
>>
>> With thanks in advance, and best wishes to all,
>> Ted.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 23-Apr-2017 Time: 20:57:37
>> This message was sent by XFMail
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ******************************************************
>> Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your
>> message will go only to the sender of this message.
>> If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's
>> 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically
>> to [log in to unmask]
>> Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and
>> cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by
>> subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical
>> Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of
>> our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk.
>> *******************************************************
>>
>
> ******************************************************
> Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your
> message will go only to the sender of this message.
> If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's
> 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically
> to [log in to unmask]
> Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and
> cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by
> subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical
> Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of
> our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk.
> *******************************************************
-------------------------------------------------
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23-Apr-2017 Time: 23:05:52
This message was sent by XFMail
-------------------------------------------------
******************************************************
Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your
message will go only to the sender of this message.
If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's
'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically
to [log in to unmask]
Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk.
*******************************************************
|