Aquaculture

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Aquaculture

Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Aquaculture

Description

Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.

MSP Challenge

Aquaculture may consist of fish farms or algae farms.

Aquaculture creates the following pressures on the ecosystem:

• Artificial substrate
• Surface disturbance

Photo credits: "Aquaculture - Coastal net pens off the coast of Maine". NOAA's National Ocean Service (2011). Licence: CC BY 2.0. Not changed. Retrieved from flickr.com on 2022-10-03.

Return to aquaculture.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the North Sea Edition.

Please go back to aquaculture and refer to one of the following pages:

• Freshwater aquaculture
• Shellfish Farms
• Finfish farms
• Algae farms

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea Edition.

Please go back to aquaculture and refer to one of the following pages:

• Shellfish Farms
• Finfish farms

Not applicable.

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

Please go back to aquaculture and refer to one of the following pages:

• Shellfish Farms
• Finfish farms

Types

• Shellfish farms
• Mussels and fish farms
• Mariculture
• Harvesting in natural sites
• Fish farm
• Classified production area
• Breeding area

Metadata

Data Source

Adapted from Emodnet human activities

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available. Provided on 2020-10-09.

Methodology

The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR).

There are two datalayers representing aquaculture in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. One is point based and diferentiates between cultures of finfish, freshwater species and shellfish. The other one represents the are ocupied by aquaculture based on polygons but does not offers any other information about them. As the two datasets not coicide, they could not be combined into an enhanced dataset based on polygons with the information about the aquaculture site.

1) Aquaculture (point based)

In the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Edition this layer is the combination of three EMODnet layers. The layers which represent Finfish, Freshwater and Shellfish are joined to create the layer showcasing Aquaculture.

Types

• Finfish
• Freshwater
• Shellfish

Metadata

Data Source

EMODnet

Original Title

• EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Marine_Finfish_20210913
• EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Freshwater_20221129
• EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Shellfish_20220225

Description

Not available.

Methodology

Grouped the layers in geoserver to be served as one in the MSP Challenge platform in the area of interest and in the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (EPSG:3035)

2) Aquaculture (polygon based)

Types

Not applicable.

Metadata

This layer was provided by partners in the (EcoScope) project. Data collected during 2024.