Ireland's MSFD Marine Reporting Units (MRU)

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Ireland’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) assessment area is subdivided into ecologically meaningful spatial units known as Marine Reporting Units (MRUs). These units serve as the basis for evaluating indicators and conducting integrated assessments of marine environme

Ireland's Marine Businesses per Electoral Division

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The Marine Business dataset presents a spatial breakdown of companies categorised across the thirteen industries defined in Ireland’s Ocean Economy Report series. To enable spatial analysis, businesses have been georeferenced to their corresponding electoral divisions (EDs) and j

VERSION SUPERSEDED: Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland second edition

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SUPERSEDED - The version has been superseded. And a new edition is now available under the Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, Fourth Edition, 2024.

This atlas provides a series of detailed maps of commercial fishing activity around Ireland with the aim of providing ins

South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan: Maritime Areas

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This dataset represents the four Maritime Areas identified as the locations for future offshore wind project deployments within the South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy (SC-DMAP) in Ireland.

South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy: Boundary

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The South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy (SC-DMAP) is Ireland’s first forward spatial plan for offshore renewable energy. As part of a plan-led approach to offshore renewable energy adopted by Government in 2023, all post Phase One offshore wind

Maritime Boundary Irish Contiguous Zone

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Beyond the 12-nautical-mile (22 km) limit, there is a further 12 nautical miles (22 km) from the territorial sea baseline limit, the contiguous zone, in which a state can continue to enforce laws in four specific areas: customs, taxation, immigration and pollution, if the infring

Irish Territorial Sea

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Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The terri

INFOMAR Shipwrecks

Geological Survey Ireland

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This dataset shows the point locations of shipwrecks in Irish Waters surveyed by INSS and INFOMAR national seabed mapping projects. Over 480 surveyed shipwrecks have been recorded in the INFOMAR shipwreck inventory. The database accurately records the location of shipwrecks (know

INFOMAR Seabed Survey Trackline

Geological Survey Ireland

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Survey tracklines delineate the line along which the vessel travelled as it was surveying. The vessel collects multibeam echosounder data (MBES) by emitting a fan of soundwaves and recording the reflected signal. The area of seabed ensonified is known as the footprint and the are

INFOMAR Seabed Survey Coverage

Geological Survey Ireland

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This dataset shows the area of seabed mapped by both the INFOMAR and Irish National Seabed Survey projects to date. Each survey leg is represented by a unique polygon whose title is coded using the initials of the vessel that did the survey, the year the survey was completed and

CoClime - Abundance of phytoplankton (“Pseudo-nitzschia seriata” complex), Southwest Ireland - fu...

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This is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of P.seriata abundance data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows abundance of P.seriata in the future (2017 - 2035) in SW Ireland. The analyses was performed in R 3.6.3, with the packages tidyv

CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (“Pseudo-nitzschia seriata” complex ) presence, Southwest ...

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This is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of P. seriata presence and absnece data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows prediction of probability of P. seriata presence in the future (2017 - 2035) in SW Ireland. The analyses was perform