Awarded Contractocds-h6vhtk-028f58

All Wales Fisheries Monitoring Equipment Framework

A wide variety of monitoring equipment is used to collate information on fish populations, migration and behaviour. This enables NRW to fulfil its statutory obligations to maintain, improve and develop fisheries of salmon, trout, eels, lampreys, smelt and freshwater fish.

Buyer

Natural Resources Wales

Value

£2,500,000

Published

2 Feb 2021

Closes

2 Feb 2021

Procurement details

Source

Find a Tender

Region

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan

Procurement method

Open

Category

Services

Contract starts

Not provided

Contract ends

Not provided

CPV classifications

90711500

Environmental monitoring other than for construction

31600000

Electrical equipment and apparatus

03300000

Farming, hunting and fishing products

31100000

Electric motors, generators and transformers

35121600

Tags

32441000

Telemetry equipment

32230000

Radio transmission apparatus with reception apparatus

32344200

Radio receivers

Lots

Lot 1 Backpack mounted electrofishing equipment

Value not provided

Electrofishing is a key component of NRW fisheries statutory duties and seasonal monitoring program and may also be used in: - Stock management operations - Fish rescue and removal (including planned works and pollution incidents) - Pollution impact assessment - Brood fish collection - Scientific research NRW fisheries requires additional equipment in order...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 2 Bankside generator electrofishing equipment - freshwater environment

Value not provided

Electrofishing is a key component of NRW fisheries statutory duties and seasonal monitoring program and may also be used in: - Stock management operations - Fish rescue and removal (including planned works and pollution incidents) - Pollution impact assessment - Brood fish collection - Scientific research NRW fisheries requires additional equipment in order...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 3 Acoustic tags and receivers at 180kHz for Fish Monitoring

£2,500,000

Acoustically tagging fish allows detailed information to be gathered around fish behaviour and movements within the riverine environment, that can be used to prioritise actions and influence management of fisheries. Acoustic tagging allows detailed analysis of fish movements within river systems, through estuaries and in the marine environment. Tagging work...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 4 Acoustic tags and receivers at 69kHz for fish monitoring

£2,500,000

Acoustically tagging fish allows detailed information to be gathered around fish behaviour and movements within the riverine, estuarine and marine environments that can be used to prioritise actions and influence management of fisheries. Tagging technology has been used by fisheries scientists and managers in numerous studies - including investigation of mig...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 5 Passive Integrated Transponder ( PIT) tagging equipment for fish monitoring

£2,500,000

PIT tagging technology has been used by fisheries scientists and managers in numerous studies including investigation of migratory behaviour at fine and large scale and enumeration of population size and related processes. NRW has identified opportunities to apply this tagging technology as part of the index river (DSAP) monitoring programme for salmon and s...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 6 Automated fish counting equipment for use on fish pass, rotary screw traps and other structures

£2,500,000

This project seeks to utilise automated fish counter technologies in narrow channel structures (e.g. fish passes up to ~0.5m) for the enumeration of migratory salmonids and other fish species (e.g. providing information of fish numbers, size, time and direction of passage, etc.). For this purpose, two approaches are considered: (i) Standalone counter deploym...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 7 Acoustic cameras - fisheries applications - Long Range

£2,500,000

NRW operates state of the art remote, non- intrusive multibeam monitoring sonars throughout Wales. These sonars provide salmon stock assessments as well as supplying information of salmon behaviour at barriers. In order to increase our capability and expand our fish counting network Natural Resources Wales is seeking to source additional multibeam sonars.

Delivery: Wales

Lot 8 Underwater cameras - marine applications

£2,500,000

NRW undertakes a comprehensive programme of marine monitoring throughout Wales’ coastal waters and employs a variety of techniques to achieve this. NRW is committed to establishing a standardised approach to monitoring and to develop new methods, taking advantage of novel technology where appropriate. Side-scan sonar (SSS) combined with ground-truthing in th...

Delivery: Wales

Lot 9 Underwater cameras - Fisheries applications short range

Value not provided

NRW operates state of the art remote, non- intrusive multibeam monitoring sonars throughout Wales. These sonars provide salmon stock assessments as well as supplying information of salmon behaviour at barriers. Additional information: No Award

Delivery: Flintshire and Wrexham, Gwynedd

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