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EMODnet Human Activities, Aquaculture, Marine Finfish

The Marine Finfish Aquaculture Dataset provides the locations of marine finfish farms in the EU and partner countries. Data were collected through several sources, including data published by Member States in compliance with the EU Animal Health Law, publicly available databases for certain countries (e.g. Norway, Denmark, and Scotland), and data obtained upon request from some national authorities. The dataset shows data from Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom (Scotland). Data for Spain are not displayed here but are available through the Acuivisor: https://servicio.pesca.mapama.es/acuivisor/. Data in other EU Member States are not available.

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Date (Publication)
2017-10-12
Date (Revision)
2026-04-23
Date (Creation)
2017-10-09
Citation identifier
EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_MarineFinfish_20260423
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

AND-International

severine.renault@and-international.com

safa.souidi@and-international.com

Author

Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment - Cyprus

Resource provider

CVO / FVST- Denmark

Resource provider

Greek Ministry of Agriculture - Greece

sperdikaris@minagric.gr

Resource provider

Fiskeridirektoratet (Norway)

Resource provider

Ireland's Marine Atlas

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Ministry of Agriculture-Directorate of fisheries - Croatia

Resource provider

Agricultural Registers and Information Board of the Republic of Estonia

Resource provider

Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation - France

Resource provider

Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria (CREA) - Italy

fabrizio.capoccioni@crea.gov.it

Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • fishery

GEMET - Groups, version 2.4

  • AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FISHERY

GEMET - Themes, version 2.4

  • fishery

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • fish farming

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Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal ( https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is AND-International.

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
100000
Language
English
Topic category
  • Farming
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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK

https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities

EMODnet Human Activities

OGC:WMS

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?

finfish

OGC:WFS

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?

emodnet:finfish

WWW:DOWNLOAD

https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/03c35b79-808f-4168-9d30-2de44a55a6f4/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Marine_Finfish_20260423.zip

EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Marine_Finfish_20260423.zip

Distribution format
Name Version
Esri geodatabase
Esri shapefile
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date
2026-04-23
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

The dataset for marine finfish aquaculture sites in the EU relies on the data collected by MS under the framework of Council Directive 2006/88/EC for animal health status ( https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/live_animals/aquaculture_en).The harmonisation work involved the following steps:- (1) Identify species when available, translate them into English and harmonise into farm types based on species and relationship with Eurostat nomenclature for species and species groups. Details provided in the datasets vary from detailed scientific names to national common names. (2) Identify translate and harmonise, production stages (Grow out for human consumption, Hatchery, Nursery, Broodstock, Reproduction, Restoration of wild stock, Put and take fisheries, Processing facility, Slaughtering facility, Other, n.a.) and production methods (Sea cages, Saltwater tanks/racaways, Saltwater ponds, Saltwater closed (recirculation), Quarantine, Other, n.a.) (3) Data cleaning: duplicates, missing or erroneous geographic coordinates, etc. ; (4) Convert all data sets into the same reference system (WGS 84). Most important producing countries where data are missing are Malta, Germany, Portugal and Spain.

Metadata

File identifier
03c35b79-808f-4168-9d30-2de44a55a6f4 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-05-18T13:40:29.933361Z
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

AND-International

severine.renault@and-international.com

safa.souidi@and-international.com

Point of contact
 
 

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