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EMODnet Human Activities, Freshwater Aquaculture

The database on freshwater aquaculture in the EU was created in 2017 by AND-International for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). The dataset provides information about the location of freshwater finfish farms in the EU and partner countries where data are available. There is an obligation for EU MS to inventory all authorized aquaculture sites under the Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements. Despite this obligation, the availability of data varies among MS from no data available at all to a complete regularly updated dataset (e.g.in Scotland). As far as partner countries are concerned, data have been collected in Norway only at this stage, where detailed data are provided online. Data provided here cover Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, and the UK (Scotland only). Data collection is still undergoing in other EU MS and neighbouring countries. The data for Spain is available through WMS services. There is a pending request to have access to the full data in order to integrate it to the EMODnet dataset. Each point has the following attributes (where available): status (Active, Expired, Inactive, Renewal), country, owner name, farm type (Carp, Diversified pond fish, Eel, Other diversified, Other specialised, Salmonids, Sturgeon, Trout), production method (Closed systems (recirculation), Ponds, Tanks-Raceways, Cages, Quarantine facility, Research facility, Other), production stage (Grow out for human consumption, Hatchery, Nursery, Brood stock, Put and take fisheries, Restoration of wild stock, Processing facility, Other), purpose (Commercial, Restocking, Other), Species from Source (English translation of the information provided on species grown in the source), point information (Polygon centroid, Original) depending on how the information is provided in the source (polygons or points), site_id. The farm type relies on a typology established by AND-International, based on available information on species grown. A relational table provides harmonised information about species grown using Eurostat nomenclature for the Species Group (Carps, barbels and other cyprinids; Miscellaneous freshwater fishes; River eels; Salmons, trouts, smelts; Sturgeons, paddlefishes; Tilapias and other cichlids), the species name (commercial and scientific) and the code. Compared with the previous version this new version has been not only updated but was also reviewed (dataset schema and attributes values), in order to add information on production methods, production stages and purposes and to provide a more useful typology based on species grown. Data from Belgium, Estonia, France and Lithuania have been added.

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Date (Revision)
2020-12-23
Date (Creation)
2017-10-09
Identifier
EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Freshwater_20201223
author
  AND-International
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  Główny Inspektorat Weterynarii - Poland
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  Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection
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  Bulgarian food safety agency
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  Bundesministerium für Gesundheit - Austria
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  Fiskeridirektoratet (Norway)
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  Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine - Ireland
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  Greek Ministry of Agriculture
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  Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of Denmark
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  Scotland Aquaculture
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  AFSCA (Agence fédérale pour la sécurité de la chaine alimentaire)- Belgium
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  SVSCR (State Veterinary Administration)- Czechia
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  State Food and Veterinary Service - Lithuania
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  Agricultural Register and Information Board - Estonia
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  Ministère de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation - France

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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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.

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Denominator
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Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Farming
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OnLine resource
EMODnet Human Activities ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

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.

OnLine resource
EMODnet_HA_Aquaculture_Freshwater_20201223.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

ZIP (File Geodatabase / Shapefile)

OnLine resource
freshwater ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )

Freshwater Production

OnLine resource
emodnet:freshwater ( OGC:WFS )

Freshwater Production

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Conformance result

Date
2020-12-23
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

The geodatabase for freshwater 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 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 (brood stock, hatchery, nursery, grow out, put an take fisheries, other) and production methods (ponds, closed systems, tanks-raceways, research facility, quarantine facility, other) (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 Italy, Germany, Hungary and Romania.

File identifier
7c02c4c9-5eb8-48ca-818c-dadadbd44f07 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2022-01-14T13:40:27
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

pointOfContact
  AND-International
 
 

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