GeoNodeFeatureCatalogue Generic Feature Catalogue Generic Feature Catalogue 1.0 2016-01-11 Organization Name pointOfContact geonode:PublicVMEncounters1974_20230 <p>Public Data only showing the records reported to General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) indicator species encounter in from 1974 until 2023.</p> <p>Public Data only from <a href="https://www.fao.org/gfcm/data/maps/sbhs/zh/">https://www.fao.org/gfcm/data/maps/sbhs/zh/</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>The database aims to store data and facilitate the analysis of all known VME indicator records (including absence data) in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, covering deep water areas inside and outside national jurisdiction, for use by the GFCM Scientific Advisory Committee on Fisheries (SAC) and the Working Group on the Black Sea (WGBS) as well as the wider scientific community. The database contributes to the provision of scientifically robust advice to the GFCM on the distribution of potential VMEs in its area of application and supports the adoption of relevant management measures by decision makers. Analysis tools are integrated within the database (e.g. through RStudio online) and sample analytical scripts (in both R and Python languages) are put at disposal through dedicated repositories to users. &nbsp;</p> <p>The database is fed regularly by means of an annual ad hoc data call (January every year) with all available data from scientific surveys, monitoring activities and commercial fisheries regarding observations on habitats/species sensitive to particular fishing activities, i.e., VME indicators, including communities of hydrothermal vents/fields, cold water coral reefs and deep-sea sponge aggregations.&nbsp;</p> <p>Criteria to define what constitutes a VME have been produced by the FAO (FAO, 2009) and a VME encounter reporting protocol from fisheries in the GFCM area of application was adopted by the GFCM in 2018 (FAO, 2019). A list of deep-water Mediterranean VME indicators including taxa is also available (FAO, 2019).&nbsp;</p> false VME Encounters GFCM 1974-2023 fid 1 1 xsd:int the_geom 1 1 gml:PointPropertyType field_1 1 1 xsd:long record_id 1 1 xsd:long year_yyyy 1 1 xsd:long date_dd_m 1 1 xsd:string data_sourc 1 1 xsd:string vessel_nam 1 1 xsd:string survey_nam 1 1 xsd:string gfcm_subre 1 1 xsd:string gfcm_gsa 1 1 xsd:string gfcm_stati 1 1 xsd:string place_name 1 1 xsd:string Country 1 1 xsd:string Responsibl 1 1 xsd:string contact_pe 1 1 xsd:string contact_1 1 1 xsd:string data_suppl 1 1 xsd:string Scientific 1 1 xsd:string station_id 1 1 xsd:string fleet_segm 1 1 xsd:string fishing_ge 1 1 xsd:string geometry_t 1 1 xsd:string point_1_s 1 1 xsd:string point_1_1 1 1 xsd:string mid_latitu 1 1 xsd:long mid_langit 1 1 xsd:long point_2_e 1 1 xsd:string point_2_1 1 1 xsd:string min_depth 1 1 xsd:string max_depth 1 1 xsd:string mean_depth 1 1 xsd:string vme_indica 1 1 xsd:string quantity_b 1 1 xsd:long Quantity_1 1 1 xsd:long alive_biom 1 1 xsd:string vme_indi_1 1 1 xsd:string vme_indi_2 1 1 xsd:string vme_habita 1 1 xsd:string vme_indi_3 1 1 xsd:string weight_uni 1 1 xsd:string Quantity_2 1 1 xsd:string Quantity_3 1 1 xsd:long surface_un 1 1 xsd:string density_by 1 1 xsd:long density_1 1 1 xsd:long live_bioma 1 1 xsd:string damaged_li 1 1 xsd:string surface_co 1 1 xsd:string Geographic 1 1 xsd:string iucn_medit 1 1 xsd:string Barcelona 1 1 xsd:string cites_appe 1 1 xsd:string relative_a 1 1 xsd:string Notes 1 1 xsd:string data_acces 1 1 xsd:string Citation 1 1 xsd:string URL 1 1 xsd:string Access 1 1 xsd:long Taxon 1 1 xsd:long