Marine Protected Areas are a globally recognised tool to manage and enhance marine ecosystems (European Environment Agency, 2018).
Within the MSP Challenge Simulation Platform it is possible to edit, add or remove Marine Protected Areas. While editing Marine Protected areas, users can select the option to also change the fishing effort of one or more fleets within the sea basin.
Return to Protected Areas
Protected planet
Not available
Not available. Implemented on 2016/12.
The layer was reprojected to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035). The geometries were simplified and the smaller geometries were removed to optimise the rendering.
HELCOM
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
"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 not available. Latest update: 2017-03-30.
Geometry simplification to speed up rendering, very small areas were deleted.
The Marine Protected Areas layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.
Data provided by project partner (Marine Scotland).
Not available.
Not available. Data provided on 2017/12.
Provided by project partner CNR-ISMAR based on the [./Ftp://ftp.minambiente.it/PNM/Natura2000/TrasmissioneCE%2Baprile2020/ Italian Ministry of environment] for Italy and tools4msp-eu-GAIR for the rest of the Adriatic.
Not available. Data provided on 2020-09-01.
The geometries were simplified and the smaller geometries were removed to optimise the rendering.
Not applicable.
This layer only exists in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea edition for planning purposes (the layer is empty).
Co-funded by the European Union.