Europe Seas habitats potentially affected by anchoring, Jun. 2020

This vector dataset represents the benthic broad habitat types in Europe seas potentially affected by anchoring.

The anchoring of vessels can produce damages to the seafloor and the loss of the habitat where it happens. It takes place in shallow waters, close to ports, where vessels have to wait for a spot in the port so they can load or offload (since ports have a limited amount of dockage). The anchoring areas allow vessels to safely anchor in protection from bad weather or other circumstances. The type of alterations to the habitats resulting from anchoring depend mainly on the dimensions and type of the anchor, as well as its movement resulting from the movement of the vessel due to currents or waves, which can increase the adverse effects.

The dataset has been prepared in the context of the development of the first European Maritime Transport Environmental Report (to be published as an EMSA-EEA report in 2021).

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Date (Creation)
2019-11-01
Date (Publication)
2020-06-16
Edition
01.00
Identifier
eea_v_3035_1_km_anchoring_p_2017_v01_r00
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

No information provided.
Custodian
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Keywords
Keywords
GEMET
  • sea
  • marine ecosystem
  • marine environment
  • habitat loss
  • benthic ecosystem
  • environmental quality
  • aquatic environment
  • marine biology
  • environment
  • ocean
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • English Channel
  • Barents Sea
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Ionian Sea
  • Celtic Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • North Sea
  • Adriatic Sea
  • Kattegat
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
  • Norwegian Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Iceland Sea
Spatial scope
  • European
EEA topics
  • Sustainability challenges
  • Biodiversity
  • Seas and coasts
Sous-regions marines
  • /Métropole
  • /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord
  • /Métropole/Mers Celtiques
  • /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne
  • /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Etat du Milieu/Habitats
Thématiques - SIMM
  • /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
  • /Données dérivées/Produits composites
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Aggregate Datasetindentifier
aa791cf1-ead5-4364-b0c3-4c54dc83c7e4
Association Type
Cross reference
Spatial representation type
Vector
Distance
1  km
Denominator
2000000
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2017-01-01
End date
2017-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • SHP ( )

OnLine resource
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_1_km_anchoring_p_2017_v01_r00/ ( EEA:FILEPATH )
OnLine resource
Direct download ( WWW:URL )
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/WISE_Marine_EuropeSeasHabitatsPotentiallyAffectedByAnchoring_WM/MapServer ( ESRI:REST )
OnLine resource
https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/WISE_Marine_EuropeSeasHabitatsPotentiallyAffectedByAnchoring_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS ( OGC:WMS )
OnLine resource
European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2021 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
The potential anchoring areas have been delineated based on the EMODnet Human Activities Vessel Density Map 2017, considering all ships, and taking the year average value. Cells with especially high density values (i.e. values >= 100) were deemed to most likely represent sites with stationary and idling ships that still had their AIS transponder on. The high value cells were extracted and transformed from raster to polygon format. Since anchoring is unlikely to happen deeper than 100 metres (otherwise it can be difficult to recover the anchor), cells in areas deeper than 100 m were removed (using EMODnet Digital Bathymetry 2016). Furthermore, anchoring areas within 500 metres of main ports (point format) were erased due to these areas likely to being used for docking and other harbour activities, and not anchoring. The ports used are those within the TEN-T network, as well as other ports of relevance (handling more than 1,000,000 tons per year or with a traffic higher than 1,000,000 passengers per year) and main fishing ports (source: LOOP-Ports project). Finally, the resulting layer was overlapped with the EMODnet Broad-Scale Predictive Habitat Map 2019, resulting in the habitats potentially affected by anchoring.
Source
File identifier
60b9ba8d-f133-4143-962a-f1edb49d2e60 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-01-15T21:09:24.346281Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA topics
Biodiversity Seas and coasts Sustainability challenges
GEMET
aquatic environment benthic ecosystem environment environmental quality habitat loss marine biology marine ecosystem marine environment ocean sea
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Habitats and biotopes Sea regions
Spatial scope
European
Thématiques - SIMM
/Activités et Usages/Transport maritime et Ports /Etat du Milieu/Habitats /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
/Données dérivées/Produits composites

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