Marine Protected Areas

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Marine Protected Areas

File:Layer Marine Protected Areas.png
Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Protected areas

Description

Areas designated for the protection of ecology groups

MSP Challenge

This puts no pressure on the ecosystem.

Types

• No protection against fishing
• No bottom trawl fishing
• No industrial and pelagic trawl fishing
• No drift and fixed nets fishing

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for North Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the North Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the North Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd North Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge North Sea Edition.

Types

• No protection
• Active Demersal Fleet Protection
• Passive Demersal Fleet Protection
• Pelagic Fleet Protection

Metadata

Data Source

HELCOM

Original Title

Baltic Sea Protected Areas

Description

"This dataset contains borders of the HELCOM MPAs (former Baltic Sea Protected Areas (BSPAs). The dataset has been compiled from data submitted by HELCOM Contracting Parties. It includes the borders of designated HELCOM MPAs stored in the HELCOM Marine Protected Areas database. The designation is based on the HELCOM Recommendation 15/5 (1994)."

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (2021-08-26).

Creation Date

Creation date not available. Latest update: 2017-03-30.

Methodology

Geometry simplification to speed up rendering, very small areas were deleted.

Types

• No protection against fishing
• No nephrops fishing
• No scallops fishing
• No demersal fishing
• No seine fishing
• No pots and creel fishing

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Clyde Marine Region here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the source.

Description

Enter the description of the Clyde Marine Region dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge.

Types

Adriatic Sea types here

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Adriatic Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the Adriatic Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the Adriatic Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Adriatic Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.