Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.
Aquaculture may consist of fish farms or algae farms.
Aquaculture creates the following pressures on the ecosystem:
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.
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This layer is not available in the North Sea Edition.
Please go back to aquaculture and refer to one of the following pages:
This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea Edition.
This layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.
Adapted from Emodnet human activities
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Not available. Provided on 2020-10-09.
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.
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.
EMODnet
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)
This layer was provided by partners in the (EcoScope) project. Data collected during 2024.
Co-funded by the European Union.