Sources of information for the map layers

  • RFB Competence Areas:

    • FAO. Areas of competence of Regional Fishery Bodies. More information at https://www.fao.org/fishery/rfb/en

  • Hydrotermal vents:

    • Location of Hydrotermal vents from the Interridge database: Beaulieu, S.E., 2013, InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields: prepared for InterRidge, Version 3.1. World Wide Web electronic publication. Version 3.2 accessed 2014-10-21, https://vents-data.interridge.org

  • GEBCO Isobath 2000:

    • 2000 meters depth bathymetry isoline, and

     

    GEBCO undersea features:

    Undersea features locations and names extracted from the GEBCO Digital Atlas (GDA): IOC, IHO and BODC, 2003. Centenary Edition of the GEBCO Digital Atlas, published on CD-ROM on behalf of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the International Hydrographic Organization as part of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool, U.K. More information at https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_digital_atlas/

  • Ocean and Sea names:

    • ESRI, DeLorme, HERE, GEBCO, NOAA, National Geographic, Geonames.org, and other contributors More information at https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0fd0c5b7a647404d8934516aa997e6d9

  • 200 nautical miles arcs:

    • Lines located at a distance of 200 nautical miles arcs from the baseline, extracted from the VLIZ MarBound database: Claus S., N. De Hauwere, B. Vanhoorne, F. Souza Dias, F. Hernandez, and J. Mees (Flanders Marine Institute) (2014). MarineRegions.org. Accessed at https://www.marineregions.org on 2014-10-23.

    (The layer displayed in the VME database is derived from the original dataset and hides specific arcs for the following areas: (a) Bouvet Island - Atlantic Ocean, (b) Antarctica - Southern Ocean and (c) South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands - Atlantic Ocean)

  • FAO Fishing areas:

    • FAO Major Fishing Areas for statistical purposes. More information at https://www.fao.org/fishery/cwp/handbook/h/en.

  • Oceans imagery:

    • Made with Natural Earth. Blended depth colors and relief shading of the ocean bottom derived from CleanTOPO2 data. More information at https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-ocean-bottom/50m-ocean-bottom/.