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Offshore Marine Protected Areas 2011 (Focus_areas_for_offshore_protection.shp)

This GIS layer represents the polygon layer for focus areas for offshore protection. The focus areas for offshore protection are geographic areas with high biodiversity priorities and are identified through systematic planning. They were developed to address the inshore bias in South Africa’s protected area system, support ecosystem based management and spatial planning the offshore environment as well as to identify potential network of offshore MPAs. Ten focus areas for offshore protection were identified.

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Date (Publication)
2011
Edition

1.0

Purpose

The layer was prepared to identify focus areas for offshore spatial management to meet a range of different biodiversity and fishery management objectives. These areas will address the inshore bias of protected area system, support ecosystem based management and spatial planning the offshore environment.

Status
On going
Custodian
  South African National Biodiversity Institute - Dr Kerry SInk ( Marine Program Manager )
Kirstenbosch Research Centre , Claremont , Cape Town , 7735 , South Africa
0217998855
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme
  • Marine

  • Protected Areas

Place
  • South Africa

Keywords
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Use constraints
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Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2016-01-01
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984

Distributor

Distributor
  SANBI
Name

ZIP

Version

1

OnLine resource
A list of services published are available at this URL. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

BGIS Map Services

OnLine resource
A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

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Statement

The study area extended from the 30 m depth contour to the current 200 nm limit of the EEZ of South Africa. Systematic biodiversity planning process was conduct to identify the areas with planning step undertaken.


Available documents:

Sink KJ, Attwood CG, Lombard AT, Grantham H, Leslie R, Samaai T, Kerwath S, Majiedt P, Fairweather T, Hutchings L, vander Lingen C, Atkinson LJ, Wilkinson S, Holness S, Wolf T. 2011. Spatial planning to identify focus areas for offshore biodiversity protection in South Africa. Final Report for the Offshore Marine Protected Area Project. Cape Town: South African National Biodiversity Institute.

File identifier
d52d3f39-7827-4adf-850e-56cc42d12bd9 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2018-01-17T12:51:44
Metadata standard name

SANS 1878

Metadata standard version

FGDC-STD-001-1998

Distributor
  SANBI - ( The Metadata Manager )
Kirstenbosch Research Centre , Cape Town , Claremont , 7735 , South Africa
+27 21 799 8738
 
 

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Keywords

Marine Protected Areas

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