ICES Ecoregions

Delineation of the ICES Ecoregions was originally described in ICES Advice ACFM/ACE report(2004).

In the present updated version, the delineation has been updated to account for additional policy objectives and reconciling of legislation (eg the MSFD and the EU water and habitats directives)

The differences are based on the four principles:

1. Within the EU accept the MSFD regional and sub-regional definitions.

2. Separate Icelandic Seas from those around Greenland.

3. Use Large Marine Ecosystem units to define the Arctic Ocean.

4. Use the accepted Norwegian regional management plans definitions of the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

Date (Publication): 2009-04-26T00:00:00

Date (Revision): 2015-01-08

Citation identifier: https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/metadata/4745e824-a612-4a1f-bc56-b540772166eb

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: The Ecoregions were proposed to assist the implementation of the ecosystem approach in European waters

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
ICES		accessions@ices.dk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Theme

ICES Ecoregions

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units

Use limitation: Data is available under the terms of the ICES Data Policy. (See: https://ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx)

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Data is available under the terms of the ICES Data Policy. (See: https://ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx)

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: eng

Character set: UTF8

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Boundaries

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
ArcGIS:OGC	https://gis.ices.dk/gis/rest/services/ICES_reference_layers/ICES_Ecoregions/MapServer	OGC SERVICES
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://gis.ices.dk/shapefiles/ICES_ecoregions.zip	ICES Ecoregions shapefile

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Metadata

File identifier: 4745e824-a612-4a1f-bc56-b540772166eb XML

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Date stamp: 2020-01-16T12:52:45

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
ICES		accessions@ices.dk	Originator

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