CEFAS Data Portal MCP Server

CEFAS Data Portal

The CEFAS Data Portal provides access to marine science datasets from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science. No authentication required.

Capabilities

• Browse datasets — paginated listing of all available holdings.
• Search datasets by keyword (e.g. plankton, temperature, shellfish).
• Dataset detail — full metadata for a specific holding by ID.
• Recordset directory — data tables within a specific holding.
• Recordset rows — actual measurement rows from a recordset.

Workflow

1. Search or browse datasets by keyword or paginated listing
2. Open metadata for a holding to see full details, coverage, and licence
3. Enumerate recordsets to see what data tables are available in the holding
4. Fetch rows from a recordset to retrieve actual measurements

Data Model

• Holding — A metadata record describing a dataset (title, abstract, keywords, licence, temporal/spatial coverage). Numeric ID.
• Recordset — A data table within a holding. Numeric ID. Contains rows of structured data.

Coverage

Fisheries (stock assessments, catch data), Marine Biodiversity (seabed surveys, species distribution), Water Quality (temperature, salinity, contaminants), Plankton monitoring, Aquaculture (shellfish, disease), Oceanography (waves, currents, sea level).

Pagination

• page — Page number (1-based)
• resultsPerPage / results_per_page — Results per page (default varies by dataset)