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EnvironmentData on Ireland's ocean economy is collected and updated on an annual basis by the Marine Institute in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit at the University of Galway. Reporting on Ireland’s ocean economy is based on thirteen marine-related industries,...
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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)...
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The Argo Float 6901939 was deployed on 04/05/2021 at 57.8357 N, -9.0694 W. The most current measurement was taken on 20/02/2024. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6901938 was deployed on 09/03/2021 at 53.2603 N, -15.668 W. The most current measurement was taken on 13/02/2025. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6901937 was deployed on 05/09/2020 at 75.0006 N, -11.1117 W. The most current measurement was taken on 10/02/2025. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6901930 was deployed on 27/03/2018 at 55.0845 N, -13.97 W. The most current measurement was taken on 17/02/2025. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6901922 was deployed on 15/04/2016 at 48.543 N, -39.769 W. The most current measurement was taken on 06/10/2024. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6900649 was deployed on 10/03/2008 at 52.583 N, -15.804 W. The most current measurement was taken on 03/02/2009. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6900648 was deployed on 12/03/2008 at 55.508 N, -14.198 W. The most current measurement was taken on 25/01/2013. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6900647 was deployed on 12/03/2008 at 54.513 N, -13.981 W. The most current measurement was taken on 24/06/2013. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6900445 was deployed on 06/03/2011 at 50.645 N, -38.914 W. The most current measurement was taken on 17/08/2014. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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The Argo Float 6900444 was deployed on 10/03/2011 at 51.786 N, -25.818 W. The most current measurement was taken on 27/04/2017. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property...
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EnvironmentNephrops norvegicus is a lobster also known as the Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine or scampi. Nephrops are one of the most valuable demersal fisheries in Europe. They are common around the Irish coast, occurring in geographically distinct sandy or muddy areas...
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EnvironmentThe OSPAR Convention is the current legal instrument guiding international cooperation on the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic. Work under the Convention is managed by the OSPAR Commission, made up of representatives of the Governments of 15...
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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...
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EnvironmentTerritorial 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...
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EnvironmentDeployment of a tide gauge at a site in Ballyglass (54° 15.2016' N, -10° 6.51366' W) on 30/04/2008. The purpose of this activity is as part of the Irish National Tide Gauge Network which provides real-time data and freely available tidal predictions to operational activities...
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The deployment of the met-ocean buoy off Mace Head (53°19'50.8"N 9°55'57.7"W) in October 2023. Integrating the longest continuously maintained oceanographic monitoring stations in Europe within a network of new buoys equipped with oceanographic sensors, acoustic recorders and...
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EnvironmentThis 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...
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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...
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