Marine protected or significant areas in the North Atlantic
Distribution of three categories of protected or significant areas on the North Atlantic (18°N to 76°N and 36°E to 98°W). Categories were delineated according to relative levels of protection, from the highest to the lowest: fishing closures implemented by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and marine reserves; other MPAs likely to benefit from a lower protection; and Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs). Source vector data originated from the RFMOs (NAFO, NEAFC and GFCM), the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), national MPAs databases (US: NOAA and SAFMC; Canada: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Norway: Institute of Marine Research) and the CBD website. The relative cover or each protection category on 25km *25km gridsquares was computed. This dataset was built to feed a basin-wide spatial conservation planning exercise, targeting the deep sea of the North Atlantic. The goal of this approach was to identify conservation priority areas for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and deep fish species, based on the distribution of species and habitats, human activities and current spatial management.
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| Author(s)Auteur(s) | Combes Magali
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Vaz Sandrine (IFREMER) |
| Contact(s)Contact(s) | IFREMER
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Horizon 2020 ATLAS project (EU) |
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The dataset of current conservation designations originated from the Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) for fishing closures (FAO, 2019; NAFO, 2019; NEAFC, 2019), the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) for MPAs (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN, 2019), national MPAs databases (US: NOAA and SAFMC; Canada: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Norway: Institute of Marine Research), and the Convention on Biological Diversity for EBSAs (CBD, 2019). The data was categorized and extracted in 25km * 25 km gridsquares of the raster grid used for the ATLAS spatial prioritization. Source data references: Convention on Biological Diversity (2019). Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas. https://www.cbd.int/ebsa/ebsas ; Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2020). Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a1e18963-25dd-4219-a33f-1a38c4971250 ; Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2020). Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/44769543-7a23-4991-a53f-c2cf7c7a946f ; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2019). General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - GFCM - Fisheries Restricted Areas (FRAs). http://www.fao.org/gfcm/data/maps/fras ; Institute of Marine Research (2019). Map “coralmpa”: cold-water corals MPAs in the EEZ of Norway. http://maps.imr.no/geoserver/web/. ; NOAA (2017). Marine Protected Areas Inventory. https://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/dataanalysis/mpainventory/ ; North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (2019). VMEs and Closed Area Coordinates Coordinates. https://www.neafc.org/closures/coordinates ; Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (2019). Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) Closures. https://www.nafo.int/Fisheries/VME ; South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (2020). Deep-water coral Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPC) and grouper Special Management Zones (SMZs) coordinates. https://safmc.net/ecosystem-management/mapping-and-gis-data/ ; UNEP-WCMC, & IUCN (2020). Marine Protected Planet [On-line], [April,2020]. Cambridge, UK. https://www.protectedplanet.net . |
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Citation proposalProposition de citation
Combes Magali, Vaz Sandrine (2019).Marine protected or significant areas in the North Atlantic.IFREMER
http://dx.doi.org/10.12770/debcbd09-4a36-48f3-a7c8-38f313eedd1b
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