ICES Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) indicators and habitats data

VME data portal is a central portal for data on the distribution and abundance of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), (and organisms considered to be indicators of VMEs) across the North Atlantic that has been set up by the Joint ICES/NAFO Working Group on Deep-water Ecology (WGDEC) and is hosted by ICES. The database is comprised of 'VME habitats' and 'VME indicators' records.

The VME database serves multiple purposes; ICES uses it for providing scientifically-robust advice on the distribution of VMEs and recommending possible management solutions such as bottom fishing closures within NEAFC (North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission) waters to protect VMEs.

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Date (Publication)
2016
Edition

2017
Identifier
https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/metadata/50051026-435d-4554-9692-4cb2f62ab5f9
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

A working tool for tracking the VME distribution pattern and for management solutions
Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ICES

ICES Data manager

accessions@ices.dk

Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Theme

  • ICES

  • VME

  • NAFO

  • WGDEC

  • VMEs

  • indicators

  • Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

  • habitats
Place

  • NORTH ATLANTIC

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites

  • Species distribution
Use limitation

Data are 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 are 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
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
1958
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Supplemental Information

While ICES has made every effort to ensure that this stomach content dataset presented here is the most complete set of information, it should be noted that there are a number of versions of this dataset held by institutions and individuals which may differ from this set.
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distribution format
Name Version

ZIP

1
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://vme.ices.dk/

VME Homepage

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://vme.ices.dk/map.aspx

VME Map view of data with additional features
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-11-23
Pass
Yes
Statement

ICES is a receiver of Marine Data from national programmes and other marine institutes, therefore ICES is not the primary collection point of marine evidence that it holds and disseminates to the users of the data.

Data are quality assured using internal and external programmes. For example, the national laboratories that take part in monitoring programmes related to contaminants and biological effects that submit information to ICES, subscribe to the Quality Assurance of Information for Marine Environmental Monitoring in Europe (QUASIMEME) or the Biological Effects Quality Assurance in Monitoring Programmes (BEQUALM) inter-laboratory proficiency-testing schemes and perform internal quality assurance. ICES operates through a network of scientific expert and advisory groups. These groups, and the processes they feed into, act as a quality check on the marine evidence, both in terms of how the evidence was gathered and how the evidence has been subsequently treated. The groups, in cooperation with regional programmes under the Regional Sea Conventions, set standards and guidelines for the collection, transmission and analysis of these data.

In addition, the ICES Secretariat provides supplementary quality assurance through its internal programmes related to the different types of marine data collection datasets, which is fedback to the participating national and regional programmes. These internal and external programmes and procedures have been established over a period of 30 or more years. They continue to evolve and strive to reflect the best available practices in the collection and treatment of marine data relevant to the ICES community.
File identifier
50051026-435d-4554-9692-4cb2f62ab5f9 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-15T12:30:35
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ICES

ICES Data manager

accessions@ices.dk

Originator
 
 

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Keywords

ICES NAFO VME VMEs Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems WGDEC habitats indicators
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Protected sites Species distribution

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