Fisheries closure

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Fisheries closure

Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Fishing

Description

Fishing activities may be restricted from operating in certain areas to preserve the fishing stocks, protect sensible or declining species or even habitats. The fisheries closure layer shows where fishing is not allowed for one or more fleets.

MSP Challenge

This is a static but editable layer, the ecossytem simulation will take into account the areas where fisheries are not allowed. If the fisheries closure is not specific to a fishing fleet, all fishing fleets will be considered banned from the area.

Return to fishing.

The fisheries closure layer is only available in the North Sea Digitwin Edition and covers only the Dutch EEZ.

Types

• Approved
• Not yet legislated

Metadata

Data Source

nationaalgeoregister retrieved from InformatieHuisMarien on 2021/11.

Description

An overview of all areas closed for fishing in The Netherslands. These areas were gathered by informatiehuis marien from source documents and published via PDOK. The proposals were discussed in the High level Scheveningen group on 27 Feb 2019 and are now continuing the process.

Creation Date

Not available. Implemented in MSP Challenge on 2021/11/18.

Methodology

Implemented as provided.

North Sea Digitwin Edition

In the North Sea Digitwin Edition, this layer represents planned areas closed for fishing activities as provided by NZA. The data has been retrieved from Eur-Lex and was last updated in 2023-12.

Sand Extraction Edition | Shrimp Closure

In the Sand Extraction Edition of the MSP Challenge, the fisheries closure layer is called Shrimp Closure, and represent the areas closed to fishing for shrimp.

Types

Not applicable.

Metadata

Data Source

Rijkswaterstaat

Original Title

"noordzeekustvisserijakkoord_2017_vibeg2"

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available.

Methodology

Not available.

In the Baltic Sea there are two fisheries closure data layers, one for all fleets and another one for cod. The layers are not visible in the menu but are taken into account in the ecossystem simulation.

Types

Not applicable.

Metadata

Data Source

HELCOM

Original Title

Fisheries closure and cod fisheries closure

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available. Implemented in MSP Challenge on 2017/10.

Methodology

Implemented as retrieved.

Western Baltic Sea

The Fisheries Closure layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.

Not applicable.

This data layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Not applicable.

This data layer is not available in the Adriatic Sea Edition.

Not applicable.

This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.