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Spatial Analysis of Marine Protected Area Networks in Europe's Seas II, Volume A, 2017

External Data Spec Published 24 Oct 2018
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This technical report presents an overview of the spatial distribution of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Europe’s seas established as of 2016 (excluding overseas territories). It represents a rerun and advancement of the spatial statistics and of the coherence analysis run by the European Topic Centre on inland, coastal and marine waters (ETC/ICM) on MPA reported data in 2012 and as such provides insight on the observed changes in European MPAs established in the four year period 2013-2016.  The networks of MPAs taken into account in the analysis are those established under the framework of the EU Nature Directives, National designations, and the Regional Sea Conventions as reported in the respective official spatial and tabular databases. The MPA assessment areas are defined by regions and sub-regions referred to in Marine Strategy Framework Directive reporting mechanisms. The statistics are reported in terms of surface area (km2) and relative percentage cover as well as percentage overlap between different networks.  This volume contains the general MPA statistics and figures relating to the representativity principle, which is one of the four principles against which MPA networks are evaluated. MPA network analysis with respect to the remaining three principles will be produced in a second volume during the course of 2018. 
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https://icm.eionet.europa.eu/ETC_Reports/SpatialAnalysisOfMarineProtectedAreaNetworksInEuropesSeas_VolumeA_2017/
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Data analysis tables are available on the report at:

  • Table 3.7 p. 35
  • Table 3.6 p. 34 
  • Table 2.2  p. 12
  • Table 3.7, p. 35
  • Table 3.7, p. 35
  • Table 3.7 p. 38
  • Table 3.6 p.34
  • Table 3.8 p. 37
  • Table 3.11 p. 40
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Table 2.1 in the report provides an overview of the datasets used to support the analysis. The baseline information analysed in the report is based on MPA data reported either at the end of 2016 (N2K data) or at the beginning of 2017 and made publicly available by mid-2017. All the datasets used for the analysis were set to the coordinate system LAEA 52N 10E – ETRS 89 (Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area as projection and European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 as geodetic reference system) in accordance with European guidelines (INSPIRE, 2014; EEA, 2008; Annoni et al., 2001) using version 10.1 of ArcGIS (ESRI inc.). The GIS analyses that were run in order to compile the statistical tables and for producing the maps were processed mainly using Python scripts.

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MPA assessment areas The spatial extent of the MPA assessment areas was defined as the marine waters surrounding the EU countries whose outer limit is defined by the 200 NM boundary from the coast (possibly coinciding with formally recognised EEZ boundaries) or the equidistance (in cases of opposite neighbouring EU countries), or by the presence of a boundary defined by an agreed treaty. However, since no formal boundary of this map exists and since this limit coincides with the boundary of the maritime area (water column) submitted by EU Member States under MSFD Articles 8, 9 and 10 in the Eionet Central Data Repository (CDR) ), the decision was taken to use the MSFD Region/Subregion boundary shapefile assembled in 2013 by ETC/ICM (ETC/ICM, 2013), based on EU Member States reported data integrated with information from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Maritime Boundaries (version 7) to delimit the MPA assessment areas
Data Table
Archived
MPA assessment areas The spatial extent of the MPA assessment areas was defined as the marine waters surrounding the EU countries whose outer limit is defined by the 200 NM boundary from the coast (possibly coinciding with formally recognised EEZ boundaries) or the equidistance (in cases of opposite neighbouring EU countries), or by the presence of a boundary defined by an agreed treaty. However, since no formal boundary of this map exists and since this limit coincides with the boundary of the maritime area (water column) submitted by EU Member States under MSFD Articles 8, 9 and 10 in the Eionet Central Data Repository (CDR) ), the decision was taken to use the MSFD Region/Subregion boundary shapefile assembled in 2013 by ETC/ICM (ETC/ICM, 2013), based on EU Member States reported data integrated with information from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Maritime Boundaries (version 7) to delimit the MPA assessment areas

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