No Bottom Trawl Fishing

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

No Bottom Trawl Fishing

File:Layer No Bottom Trawl Fishing.png
Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Protected areas

Description

"No Bottom Trawl Fishing" depicts areas where BottomTrawl Fishing is not allowed. This layer is calculated by the simulations in the MSP Challenge.

MSP Challenge

"No Bottom Trawl Fishing" is calculated for each edition of the MSP Challenge and changes dynamically according to the plans made by users. The rules that define the areas where no BottomTrawl fishing is allowed is customized for each edition (region) of the challenge.

Back to protected areas.

Types

• Very Low Protection
• Low Protection
• Medium Protection
• High Protection
• Very High Protection

Metadata

Not applicable. This layer is calculated by the system.

In the North Sea the following data layers contribute to "No BottomTrawl Fishing":

• Oil & Gas Offshore Instalations

• Pipelines
• Tidal Farms (during construction and exploitation)
• Wave Farms (during construction and exploitation)
• Wind Farms (during construction and exploitation)
• Military Areas (dumping sites)
• Telecom Cables (during construction and exploitation)
• Intense Shipping areas
• Ports
• Energy Cables (during construction)
• Marine Protected Areas when protecton agains BottomTrawl fishing is activated

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea Edition.

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.

Types

• Extremely Low
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Extra High

Metadata

Not applicable. This layer is calculated by the system.

In the Eastern Mediterranean the following data layers contribute to No Bottom Trawl Fishing, their contribution (from 0 to 1) is indicated in brackets:

• Marine Protected Area (1.0)