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Environment
Under the European Union (EU) Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) the Irish Naval Service undertake the role of maritime surveillance of fishing effort according to sustainable management of the North Atlantic fisheries resource. The Fisheries Effort Zones are divided into 11 units of
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Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are designated under the European Commission Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. All European Community member States are required to identify internationally important areas for breeding, over-wintering and migrating birds and designate t
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Environment
Real time data and services of ocean wave information from moored wave buoy in Cork Harbour. Parameters collected include, dateTime (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss), Peak Period (secs), Peak Direction (DegreesTrue), Upcross Period (secs) and Significant Wave Height (cm).
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The twelve nautical mile limit pertains to fisheries and it gives exclusive rights to Irish registered fishing vessels to fish in those waters. Between six and twelve miles some fishing vessels, flying the flags of the U.K., France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, have hist
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The EPA carries out a programme of round-the-clock measurements from our permanent monitoring network and a programme of sampling followed by laboratory testing. We take and test around 2000 samples every year. Most samples are taken from fixed locations throughout Ireland. Fish
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The six nautical mile limit pertains to fisheries and it gives exclusive rights to Irish registered fishing vessels to fish in those waters. Between six and twelve miles some fishing vessels, flying the flags of the U.K., France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, have histori
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WFD Fish Ecological status for Rivers, Lakes and Transitional waters 2008 to recentInland Fisheries IrelandEnvironment
The main purpose of Inland Fisheries Ireland’s NRSP (National Research Survey Programme) and Water Framework Directive (WFD) Rivers, Lakes, and Transitional and Coastal Water (TRAC) sampling programmes is to collect fish stock data relating to fish species composition, abundance
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The NMPF’s climate change policies seek to support management of potential impacts of proposals in two ways. Firstly, the way in which the proposal may affect natural and / or physical features that play a role in mitigation (e.g. carbon sequestration) or adaptation (e.g. flood d
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Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are those which have been given greater protection under the European legislation of The Habitat's Directive. They have been designated because of a possible threat to the special habitats or species which they contain and to provide increased
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Environment
This map shows drainage classes of soils across Ireland based on examination of the soil profile. Organic soils, comprising either peat or alluvium, are separated out from four drainage classes across mineral soils; well drained, imperfectly drained, poorly drained or very poorl
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Government
Generalised Zoning Types developed for the MyPlan project. This represents a consistent zoning scheme across all local authorities, and complements (rather than replaces) the existing statutory zoning used for each individual plan. MyPlan is a a free and easy to use public inform
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The aim of the Shellfish Waters Directive is to protect or improve shellfish waters in order to support shellfish life and growth. It is designed to protect the aquatic habitat of bivalve and gastropod molluscs, which include oysters, mussels, cockles, scallops and clams. The Dir
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This map shows the areas where sub-bottom profile data is available in Irish waters. Sub-bottom profile data shows the rock features and the sediment layers that are below the seabed.
A sub-bottom profile is created by sending sound waves from the vessel to the seabed. The length
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Environment
Dataset owned and provided by Environmental Protection Agency
For further information on EPA Bathing Water go to;
http://www.epa.ie/downloads/pubs/water/bathing/name,14677,en.html
Bathing Water
The Quality Of Bathing Water In Ireland 2006 Summary: Bathing water quality has gener
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Agreed boundary for ORE development between Ireland and Northern IrelandDepartment of Climate, Energy and the EnvironmentEnvironment
To facilitate the development of offshore renewable energy installations, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland defined two boundary lines between Northern Ireland and Ireland. This is to clarify responsibilities
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Records of the Iveragh Peninsula's wildlife gathered by research assistants employed with the LIVE Project as they carried out fieldwork for various projects on the Peninsula.
Geographic Coverage: The coastal communities of the Iveragh Peninsula, Co. Kerry are the focus of the LI
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Environment
Corine Land Cover 2012 is a map of the Irish environmental landscape based on interpretation of satellite images based on EC established CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) specifications.
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CE20011 Systematic Monitoring Survey of the Moira Mound Chain (SyMonS_MoM) 2020University College CorkEnvironment
The SyMonS_MoM research cruise took place in September/October 2020 on board the RV Celtic Explorer in the North East Atlantic Ocean. The cruise (CE20011) had 5 objectives: Task 1.1 - ROV-mounted multibeam echosounder (Kongsberg EM2040). An EM2040 was integrated with a sound velo
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Environment
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