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Indicative areas used for anchoring and mooring of vessels around the Maltese islands. The data was used in the assessment of MSFD descriptor D6C2 (physical disturbance to the seabed)

The Veterinary Regulation and Fisheries Conservation and Control within the VAFD has set a number of conservation areas around wrecks. These are considered as "NO STOPPING AREAS". Anchoring is allowed to divers' vessels only after pre-notification to the Valletta VTS. Masters of diving support vessels are to ensure that collisions at sea and international code of signals, are shown at all times. Furthermore, spear fishing and the use of fishing gear such as set bottom lines, trammel nets, gill nets and entangling nets, encircling nets, demersal pots and traps are prohibited in these areas. Only surface fishing is allowed including trolling lines (rixa) and angling for pelagic fish. (Other charts affected).This data was funded by of one of the co-financed EU LIFE+ Funding Programmes - LIFE BaĦAR for N2K project.

Regulations are in place to spatially manage offshore trawling efforts within the FMZ: trawling within the 25 nautical mile zone can, according to legislation, only take place at designated sites (detailed in Annex Va of EC 1967/2006 and as amended in 2012). These trawlable areas were chosen when Malta joined the EU in 2004, and were based on an FAO study on the location of areas suitable for trawling in Maltese waters carried out in 1976 / 1977 (Giudicelli, 1978). In addition trawling is only allowed within the FMZ by vessels not exceeding an overall length of 24 m, and the overall capacity of the trawlers allowed to fish in the zone can not exceed 4 800 kW. Moreover, the total fishing effort of all vessels is not allowed to exceed an overall engine power and tonnage of 83 000 kW and 4 035 GT respectively, and the fishing capacity of any single vessel with a license to operate at less than 200 m depth can not exceed 185 kW. This data was utilised by one of the co-financed EU LIFE+ Funding Programmes - LIFE BaĦAR for N2K project.

Position of the Aquaculture boundary farms were taken from Notices to Mariners and from observations carried out by the Department (GPS positions).This data was included as part of the dataset used for one of the co-financed EU LIFE+ Funding Programmes - LIFE BaĦAR for N2K project.

Positions of Coralligenous point data were extracted from the below three different scientific papers and merged into one dataset: 1) Taviani, M., Dimech, M., Mifsud, C., Freiwald, A., Harasewyech, M.G. and Oliveriom, M. (2009). Coralliophilinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) associated with deep water coral banks in the Mediterranean. THE NAUTILUS 123(3):106-112.2)Schembri, P.J., Dimech, M., Camilleri, M., and Page, R.(2007). Living water Lophelia and Madrepora corals in Maltese waters (Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Cah. Biol. Mar. 48: 77- 83. 3) Freiwald, A., Beuck, L., Ruggeberg, A., Taviani, M., and Hebbeln, D. (2009). The White coral community in the Central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys. Oceanography Vol 22, No1. This data was utilised by one of the co-financed EU LIFE+ Funding Programmes - LIFE BaĦAR for N2K project.

Organizzazzjonijiet pubbliċi

Jinkludi n-numru ta’annimali maqtulin u l-kwantità ta’ laħam ipproduċut, ikklassifikat skont it-tip t’annimal. L-għan huwa biex noffru sapport għall-analiżi bbażati fuq tendenzi fis-settur tal-produzzjoni tal-laħam.

This dataset is published on a quarterly basis and provides a comprehensive overview of the monthly number of slaughtered livestock (heads) for beef, pigs, and broilers. Data for Beef and Pig meat are sourced directly from the civil abattoir while data for Broiler meat is obtained from private local slaughterhouses. This dataset offers a statistical measure of slaughtered livestock across the main livestock categories.

Location of standing waters

Location of transitional waters in the Maltese islands