0d07002d-4aa1-4215-8915-1979d6ea5226 English Cogea Srl luigi.falco@bip-group.com 2025-09-02T09:34:24.808967Z ISO19115 2003/Cor.1:2006 EMODnet Human Activities, FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes 2008-02-15 2025-01-27 2008-02-15 ac02a460-da52-11dc-9d70-0017f293bd28 FAO Major Fishing Areas for Statistical Purposes are arbitrary areas, the boundaries of which were determined in consultation with international fishery agencies on various considerations, including (i) the boundary of natural regions and the natural divisions of oceans and seas; (ii) the boundaries of adjacent statistical fisheries bodies already established in inter-governmental conventions and treaties; (iii) existing national practices; (iv) national boundaries; (v) the longitude and latitude grid system; (vi) the distribution of the aquatic fauna; and (vii) the distribution of the resources and the environmental conditions within an area. The rationale of the FAO Major Fishing Areas has been that the areas should, as far as possible, coincide with the areas of competence of other fishery commissions when existing. This system facilitates comparison of data, and improves the possibilities of cooperation in statistical matters in general. FAO - Fisheries Management and Conservation Service Fabio.Carocci@fao.org Emmanuel.Blondel@fao.org https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0d07002d-4aa1-4215-8915-1979d6ea5226/attachments/fao2.jpg Statistical units GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2012-07-20 fishery marine fishery fisheries management GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 2012-07-20 No limitations on public access Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is Cogea Srl. English boundaries -180.00 180.00 -90.00 90.00 https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities WWW:LINK EMODnet Human Activities EMODnet Human Activities aims to facilitate access to existing marine data on activities carried out in EU waters, by building a single entry point for geographic information on human uses of the ocean. The portal makes available information such as geographical position, spatial extent of a series of activities related to the sea, their temporal variation, time when data was provided, and attributes to indicate the intensity of each activity. The data are aggregated and presented so as to preserve personal privacy and commercially-sensitive information. The data also include a time interval so that historic as well as current activities can be included. https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms? OGC:WMS fao_areas FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs? OGC:WFS emodnet:fao_areas FAO Statistical Areas for Fishery Purposes https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0d07002d-4aa1-4215-8915-1979d6ea5226/attachments/EMODnet_HA_FAO_Areas_20230926.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD EMODnet_HA_FAO_Areas_20230926.zip ZIP (Shapefile) Esri shapefile COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata 2008-12-04 See the referenced specification Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 328, page 83 2009-12-15 See the referenced specification 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 See the referenced specification For various historical reasons the Areas in the Pacific were not so developed, with the exception of Area 87 corresponding to the CPPS area of competence. Initiatives for closer cooperation between agencies in the interest of better data, not only in the field of tunas, have suggested that some changes are necessary to the present FAO fishing areas/boundaries in the Pacific. The boundaries of fishing areas could be modified and adjusted according to new requirements, but it is inadvisable to introduce too frequent amendments to the already established areas. Revisions to boundaries should only be introduced after consultation with all the national fishery authorities and fishery agencies concerned with the areas under revision. Unless there are other over-riding reasons, boundaries lines should be drawn along 5° lines of longitude and latitude.