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The Practices database is continuously optimised in order to ensure that search queries produce the most accurate results and new practice descriptions are added on a regular basis. Select relevant filters in the search boxes or enter the title of a practice or a  keyword in the freetext searchbox.

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AMAre Geoportal for Mediterranean MPAs

AMARe

The AMAre Geoportal was developed within the Interreg-MED project AMAre, to provide a spatial database to store, manage and share data on four MPAs involved in the project (Sporades, Malta...

  • Apr 2018
Socio-economic work of HELCOM

HELCOM HOLAS II & social and economic analyses 

The study focuses on the general development of economic and social analyses and is based on HELCOM's expert network. Main aspects covered by the analysis are the contribution of human activities to national and regional economies and the contribution of the marine environment to the wellbeing of current and future generations. The work is aiming to gain coherent and comparable information across the Baltic Sea countries.
  • Jan 2017
Economic potential of maritime regions

Plan4Blue

The aim of the study was to find out whether the maritime sectors in Estonia and Finland are rather independent in their development within national economies or whether maritime sectors are linked stronger with national economics.
  • Mar 2018
Economic valorization of Polish sea space related to fishery

The draft Maritime Spatial Plan fo Polish Sea Areas, scale 1:200.000

During the drafting of the Polish MSP it turned out that in the fishing sector, the ICES reference grid squares were too big to use for the planning. Instead, the net profit of large fishing vessels was assessed to identify the most important fishing grounds and to map the results including the routes of the fleet. This exercise took half a year and was far cheaper than the normal assessments taking several years.
  • Jan 2017
AquaSpace tool to support MSP

Aquaspace

The AquaSpace tool was developed within the EU Horizon 2020 project AquaSpace in order to achieve an effective implementation of MSP for aquaculture by adopting an Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture...

  • Jan 2017