Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) Area is the geographic area management and reporting unit for Ireland's NMPF reporting. The NMPF sits at the top of the hierarchy of plans and sectoral policies for the marine area of Ireland. Marine planning brings together multiple users of the ocean to make informed and coordinated decisions on the sustainable use of marine resources. EU Directive 2014/89/EU, establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning, was adopted in July 2014. The European Union (Framework for Maritime Spatial Planning) Regulations 2016 were signed into law on 29th June 2016. The NMPF is managed by the Department of Housing Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) with monitoring support provided by the Marine Institute. The area applies from the High Water Mark in Ireland’s coastal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zone and in designated parts of the continental shelf. Ireland’s marine area totals over 488,000 Km2. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>The National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) Area is the geographic area management and reporting unit for Ireland's NMPF reporting. The NMPF sits at the top of the hierarchy of plans and sectoral policies for the marine area of Ireland. Marine planning brings together multiple users of the ocean to make informed and coordinated decisions on the sustainable use of marine resources. EU Directive 2014/89/EU, establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning, was adopted in July 2014. The European Union (Framework for Maritime Spatial Planning) Regulations 2016 were signed into law on 29th June 2016. The NMPF is managed by the Department of Housing Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) with monitoring support provided by the Marine Institute. The area applies from the High Water Mark in Ireland’s coastal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zone and in designated parts of the continental shelf. Ireland’s marine area totals over 488,000 Km2</SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is an intergovernmental marine science organization, meeting societal needs for impartial evidence on the state and sustainable use of our seas and oceans. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>Our goal is to advance and share scientific understanding of marine ecosystems and the services they provide and to use this knowledge to generate state-of-the-art advice for meeting conservation, management, and sustainability goals. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>We are a network of nearly 6000 scientists from over 700 marine institutes in our 20 member countries and beyond. Over 2500 scientists participate in our activities annually.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>Through strategic partnerships our work in the Atlantic Ocean also extends into the Arctic, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, and the North Pacific Ocean.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>The prawn (Nephrops norvegicus) are common around the Irish coast occurring in geographically distinct sandy/muddy areas were the sediment is suitable for them to construct their burrows. Nephrops spend a great deal of time in their burrows and their emergence from these is related to time of year, light intensity and tidal strength. This is the spatial dataset of the Nephrops Functional Units statistical rectangle sub-division.</SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>ICES provides advice by ecoregion, allowing for further development of an ecosystem approach in European waters. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>The ecoregions set the boundaries for monitoring of the ecosystem and the context for providing the evidence for regional managers engaged in decision-making. They are based on biogeographic and oceanographic features and existing political, social, economic, and management divisions. They are developed through an iterative process of consultations between scientists and stakeholders led by our Advisory Committee (ACOM). </SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>International Council Exploration of the Seas (ICES) statistical sub rectangle boundaries represent a reporting unit for ICES created by the Marine Institute. The Marine Institute quarter divided each statistical rectangle to report catch per unit effort distribution of commercial species of fish in the North Atlantic around Ireland from the Irish Groundfish Survey trawls between 2005 and 2011. </SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) standardise the division of sea areas for statistical analysis. Each ICES statistical rectangle is ’30 min latitude and 1 degree longitude’ in size. And are approximately 30 nautical miles square.</SPAN></P></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>International Council Exploration of the Seas (ICES) statistical area boundaries represent a reporting unit under ICES. ICES reporting area is divided into 65 reporting units known as Statistical Areas formerly known as ICES Divisions. </SPAN></P></DIV>