EMODnet Human Activities, Shellfish protected areas under the WFD

The dataset on the shellfish protected areas under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) was created in 2023 by AND-International for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). The Directive (Article 6, paragraphs 1 and 2) requires Member States to designate areas which require specific protection of their surface water and groundwater, or for the conservation of habitats and species directly depending on water. According to Annex IV (ii) of the WFD, these areas should include areas designated for the protection of economically significant aquatic species (shellfish in this case). This dataset compiles the designated areas as provided by national sources (The Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government of Ireland and The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demography in Spain) and it is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). Each polygon has the following attributes: area ID (in EMODnet), country, area name, designation date, ID from the source.

Date (Publication): 2024-02-06

Date (Revision): 2024-02-06

Date (Creation): 2024-02-06

Citation identifier: EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_WFD_Areas_20240206

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
AND-International	severine.renault@and-international.com safa.souidi@and-international.com	Author
Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage, Ireland		Resource provider
Miniterio para la Transicion Ecologica y el Reto Demografico - Spain		Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Hydrography
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Protected sites

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3

hydrography
shellfish
protected area

Use limitation: Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. For Spain should be mentioned the following source "Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico". Data from Ireland is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and should mentioned the following source "Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage of Ireland".

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language: English

Topic category

Planning cadastre

Distribution format

Name	Version
unknown	unknown

Transfer size: 0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities	EMODnet Human Activities
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0b2c023f-b12d-4048-9ccb-0c0ca405cdea/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_WFD_Areas_20240206.zip	EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_WFD_Areas_20240206.zip
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?	shellfishwfdareas
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?	emodnet:shellfishwfdareas

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date: 2023-12-28

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The dataset on the shellfish protected areas under the Water Framework Directive relies on national official sources: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in Ireland and the The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demography in Spain. These datasets have been harmonised and made interoperable. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted. Generally speaking data are to be considered reliable, because they come from national sources officially in charge for their collection. Timeliness of the data however varies among countries. Data were updated in 2017 in Ireland and in 2023 in Spain.