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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role AND-International
Author Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment - Cyprus
Resource provider CVO / FVST- Denmark
Resource provider Greek Ministry of Agriculture - Greece
Resource provider Fiskeridirektoratet (Norway)
Resource provider Ireland's Marine Atlas
Resource provider 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
Resource provider
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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fishery
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GEMET - Groups, version 2.4
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AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FISHERY
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GEMET - Themes, version 2.4
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fishery
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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fish farming
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- No limitations on public access
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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
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- Farming
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- Transfer size
- 0
- OnLine resource
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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
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Name Version Esri geodatabase Esri shapefile
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date
- 2026-04-23
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Statement
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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
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- 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
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ISO19115
- Metadata standard version
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2003/Cor.1:2006
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role AND-International
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