Seabed habitat protection zone

The dataset is based on Norwegian regulations governing the control of fishing using bottom trawl equipment in the Norwegian Economic Zone, the fishing zone around Jan Mayen and the fish conservation zone at Svalbard.

The purpose of the regulation is to protect vulnerable benthic habitats. The rules, which are based on the "precautionary approach", define all seabed more than 1000 metres deep as vulnerable. Fishing equipment may cause major damage to these habitats. Fishing using bottom trawl equipment is basically prohibited in areas more than 1000 metres deep.

Date (Publication): 2011-10-12

Date (Creation): 0001-01-01

Date (Revision): 2021-02-26

Unique resource identifier: verneomrade_bunnhabitat

Owner

Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries - Frances Toynbee

Publisher

Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries - Frances Toynbee

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Nasjonal inndeling i geografiske initiativ og SDI-er

Barentswatch
Open data
Norway Digital
National public data catalog

Nasjonal tematisk inndeling (DOK-kategori)

Marine activities

Place

sjø
hav
nordsjøen
barentshavet

Theme

barentswatch
bunnhabitat
bunnredskap
fiske
verneområde
j-melding
fiskeri
fiskeriregulering

Owner

Use limitation: All bruk av data og tjenester fra Fiskeridirektoratet er underlagt Norsk lisens for offentlige data (NLOD)

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Åpne data

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Norsk lisens for offentlige data (NLOD)

Other constraints: Fiskeridirektoratet skal oppgies som kilde

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 20000

Metadata language: Norwegian

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 0001-01-01

Supplemental Information: More information on the interactive map for the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries can be found here:

http://www.fiskeridir.no/Kart

Data can be downloaded from here, or from the download page for the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries:

https://kart.fiskeridir.no/nedlasting

Distribution format

SOSI ( 4.0 )

Distributor

Distributor
Fiskeridirektoratet

OnLine resource

https://portal.fiskeridir.no/kart ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )