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Europe's seas and selected characteristics of EU marine protected area networks

Figure Created 21 Sep 2018 Last modified 15 Dec 2022

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems Water and marine environment

The table shows the areal extent of Europe's seas and selected characteristics of EU marine protected areas (MPAs), namely area coverage, percentage of coverage and total number of sites. Data excludes the Icelandic Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea

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surface area (km²)

percentage (%) of coverage

number of sites

nm: Nautical miles

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European Environment Agency (EEA)

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European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM)

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Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Bay of Biscay Celtic Sea Macaronesia, España Marine Baltic sea Marine Black sea Marine Mediterranean sea Marine North-east Atlantic ocean