ICES: Find Geospatial data on Seas of Europe on data.europa.eu
The goal of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
[https://www.ices.dk/about-ICES/Pages/default.aspx] (ICES) is to
become a world-leading marine science organisation that meets
 societal needs for impartial evidence on the state and sustainable
use of sea and oceans. They aim to advance and share scientific
understanding of marine ecosystems and the services marine
organisations provide. One of the tools they offer to achieve this
goal is the metadata catalogue
[https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home] to
easily share geographically referenced information on the exploration
of the sea. 

The ICES metadata catalogue is comprised of datasets organised around
specific themes and services that can help search for information. The
datasets are classified under the following topics: biodata,
boundaries, economy, elevation, environment, geoscientific
information, imagery base maps earth cover, location, oceans, and
society. For example, you can find a dataset on broad habitat types in
the Bulgarian Black Sea shelf
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/8f34b31f-5342-4033-8763-8c5a9930b1ab?locale=en]
or a report of a workshop about mesopelagic fishing for industry
stakeholders
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/626c2e02-5762-4ee1-8f40-908a35bf06a5?locale=en].

ICES data is used in a wide range of sectors for example, considering
research on the role of fish and fishing
[https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abd7554] in the
context of the marine biological carbon pump (BCP) to regulate CO2
emission. BCP is the ocean’s biological system of carbon
sequestration in the deep ocean, away from the atmosphere and the
land. Research focused on different ways in which fishing can impact
the BCP cycle and change food diversity. Therefore, the biological
system and the fishing gear is known to have direct impacts on the
seafloor.

Looking for ICES geographic datasets? Since November 2022, you can
find more than 1200 of their datasets
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&minScoring=0&catalog=ices&page=1]
on data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/en], focusing on the seas of
Europe. 

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Publication Date/Time
2023-03-27T09:00:00+00:00
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
contains geospatial metadata focused on sea and oceans