60b9ba8d-f133-4143-962a-f1edb49d2e60 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T10:53:43.679064Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 Europe Seas habitats potentially affected by anchoring, Jun. 2020 2019-11-01 creation 2020-06-16 publication 01.00 eea_v_3035_1_km_anchoring_p_2017_v01_r00 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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Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). aa791cf1-ead5-4364-b0c3-4c54dc83c7e4 vector 1 2000000 environment oceans -65.168197 78.492342 24.869854 78.939589 2017-01-01 2017-12-31 SHP https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_1_km_anchoring_p_2017_v01_r00/ EEA:FOLDERPATH https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/60b9ba8d-f133-4143-962a-f1edb49d2e60 WWW:URL Direct download https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/WISE_Marine_EuropeSeasHabitatsPotentiallyAffectedByAnchoring_WM/MapServer ESRI:REST https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/WISE_Marine_EuropeSeasHabitatsPotentiallyAffectedByAnchoring_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/maritime-transport WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2021 Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification 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.