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Fishering Restricted Areas (FRAs)

The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) is one of the few RFMOs worldwide entitled to adopt spatial management measures that regulate or restrict human activities in the high seas, e.g. by introducing closures or prohibiting the use of certain gears. Since 2006, four FRAs, falling both in high seas and national waters have been established to ensure the protection of deep sea sensitive habitats in well-delimited sites. In addition, yet in 2005 the GFCM endorsed the decision of prohibiting bottom-trawling activities in waters deeper than 1000 m in order to protect the deep-sea benthic environments of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Original title
Original abstract
Topic category
  • fishing
  • protected_areas
Sub category
Resource language English
Domain area
  • Mediterranean Sea
Owner MedPAN,GFCM
Provider MedPAN,Adriplan data Portal,GFCM data portal
Data portal Adriplan data Portal,GFCM data portal
Presentation form Map (map represented in raster or vector form)
Spatial representation Vector - polygon
Coordinate reference system
    Web services
      Derives from
      Derived datasets
      Successor of
      Predecessor of
      Temporal extent 2016-01-01
      2016-12-31
      Spatial extent
      Data accessibility Data may sent by email by MedPAN
      Validation level Official data
      Additional information
      Metadata completeness Complete
      Notes

      Additional info - MSP - Environment

      Species, habitats, ecosystems, pressures

      Field Value
      MSFD Classes
        MSFD Descriptors/Criteria
          Non MSFD Classes
            WFD

            Additional info - MSP - Oceanographic and CC

            Physics, biochemistry, EOV, ECV

            Field Value
            Variables

              Additional info - MSP - Conservation

              Protected areas, OECM, IBA, EBSA, CCH, IMMA, ...

              Field Value
              Types
              • Regionally designated Protected Areas (marine and coastal)
              • Potential Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs)
              Zonation No

              Additional info - MSP - Maritime activities

              Aquaculture, fishing, transport, energy, ...

              Field Value
              Activity types

                Additional info - MSP - Coastal & Land use and planning

                Land use, land cover, planning (strategic, coordination, operational)

                Field Value
                Types

                  Additional info - MSP - Socio-economic

                  Living and non-living resources, shipping, tourism, energy, ...

                  Field Value
                  Activity types
                    Value types
                      Categories

                      Additional info - MSP - Ecosystem Services

                      Provisioning, regulation & maintenance, cultural

                      Field Value
                      CICES classes

                        Additional info - MSP - Legal, Governance & Planning

                        Strategic, legislation, planning, administrative, enforcement

                        Field Value
                        Themes Conservation (i.e. Protected areas)
                        Functions
                          Who is in charge?

                          Additional info - MSP - Relevance

                          Relevance of the dataset / resource in supporting the MSP process at different spatial scales and temporal frames

                          Field Value
                          Relevance (spatial and temporal)
                          • International - present - High
                          • International - future - High
                          • National - present - High
                          • National - future - High
                          • Sub-area - present - High
                          • Sub-area - future - High
                          • Local - present - High
                          • Local - future - High