4d246b5e-2cca-18c9-5dc3-b2e2a4496bda dataset Environmental Reporting, Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand Analyst 23 Kate Sheppard Place, PO Box 10362 Wellington 6143 Environmental.Reporting@mfe.govt.nz 2022-11-21T13:35:09 ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification 2007 17 2193 EPSG 9.8(10.0.0) NZ Benthic protection areas (Merc41) 2016-10-27 New Zealand’s four million km2 marine environment is diverse, with a range of coastal habitats and offshore seabed environments. There are also many marine species unique to New Zealand. Marine protected areas conserve or manage some of these unique habitats and species, while a range of other tools also provide marine protection. We report on the area covered by these tools as an indirect measure to understand the state of the marine environment. Benthic protection areas (protected seabed areas) are one of the marine protection tools used. They are designated areas in the exclusive economic zone, which extends from the 12 nautical mile seaward limit of the territorial sea to the 200 nautical mile limit. Bethnic protection areas protect seabed habitats through the prohibition of bottom trawling and dredging. There are some areas where seamount closures overlap with benthic protection areas. In these cases the seamount closure restrictions apply. Note that the thumbnail preview of this spatial data does not reflect the data underlying it. Please see the methodology for a more reflective preview.Sourced from MfE from a collection of layers for the "Our Marine Environment 2016" report (see https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layers/tag/our-marine-environment-2016/) Sourced from MfE from a collection of layers for the "Our Marine Environment 2016" report (see https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layers/tag/our-marine-environment-2016/) MfE Sourced from MfE from a collection of layers for the "Our Marine Environment 2016" report (see https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layers/tag/our-marine-environment-2016/) Environmental Reporting, Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand Analyst 23 Kate Sheppard Place, PO Box 10362 Wellington 6143 Environmental.Reporting@mfe.govt.nz *.xml Unknown New Zealand ANZLIC Jurisdictions 2008-10-29 Version 2.1 2008-10-29 http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/anzlic-jurisdic.xml#anzlic-jurisdic ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council MARINE MARINE-Biology FAUNA-Vertebrates ECOLOGY-Habitat BOUNDARIES ANZLIC Search Words 2008-05-16 Version 2.1 2008-05-16 http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/anzlic-theme.xml#anzlic-theme ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council Downloadable Data Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment environment oceans location boundaries biota Microsoft Windows 10 Version 10.0 (Build 19044) ; Esri ArcGIS 12.8.3.29751 ANZMet Lite Country codelist 2009-03-31 Version 1.0 2009-03-31 http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/anzlic-country.xml#Country ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council nzl 160.999990645 -170.999990064 -55.8405520002 -25.9016539999 true -180.00 180.00 -55.840552 -25.901654 Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53494-benthic-protection-areas-2016-report/ dataset Source: Ministry for Primary Industries Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment