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Official Trawling Zones - Amended 2012
Regulations are in place to spatially manage offshore trawling efforts within the FMZ: trawling within the 25 nautical mile zone can, according to legislation, only take place at designated sites (detailed in Annex Va of EC 1967/2006 and as amended in 2012). These trawlable areas were chosen when Malta joined the EU in 2004, and were based on an FAO study on the location of areas suitable for trawling in Maltese waters carried out in 1976 / 1977 (Giudicelli, 1978). In addition trawling is only allowed within the FMZ by vessels not exceeding an overall length of 24 m, and the overall capacity of the trawlers allowed to fish in the zone can not exceed 4 800 kW. Moreover, the total fishing effort of all vessels is not allowed to exceed an overall engine power and tonnage of 83 000 kW and 4 035 GT respectively, and the fishing capacity of any single vessel with a license to operate at less than 200 m depth can not exceed 185 kW. This data was utilised by one of the co-financed EU LIFE+ Funding Programmes - LIFE BaĦAR for N2K project.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2023-05-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-08-13
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-05-30
- Citation identifier
- haleconnect.com/54ed0202-dda6-421e-a369-16dae1d5ea22
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Point of contact
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- Other restrictions
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- Other restrictions
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Unique resource identifier
- ETRS89
- Distribution format
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Name Version onLine
1.0
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://haleconnect.com/ows/services/org.1261.8b8a152d-a82e-4e9f-ad23-d21db23bbf37_wfs?SERVICE=WFS&Request=GetCapabilities
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://haleconnect.com/ows/services/org.1261.8b8a152d-a82e-4e9f-ad23-d21db23bbf37_wms?SERVICE=WMS&Request=GetCapabilities
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units - Technical Guidelines
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units - Technical Guidelines
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- 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
Conformance result
- Statement
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These trawlable areas were chosen when Malta joined the EU in 2004, and were based on an FAO study on the location of areas suitable for trawling in Maltese waters carried out in 1976 / 1977 (Giudicelli, 1978)
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- File identifier
- 0d45c93f-a2f4-4884-983a-bd5c54fc7163 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-13
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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2003
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Point of contact
