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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