BIOPAIS: Map
There are 10 protected zones belonging to 3 different categories.
7 Natura 2000 sites,
1 marine protecetd area established by Spanish Decree and
2 Areas of fishing interest (closed areas to fishing) established by Spanish Order.
(1) (1) SPA of Cap Bear-Cap Cerbère, (2) SPAMI, SCI, SAC, and SPA of Cap de Creus, (3) SPAMI, SCI, SAC, and SPA of Montgrí-Medes-Baix Ter, (4) SCI “Western Submarine Canyon System of the Gulf of Lions”, (5) “Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor”, (6) SPA of the “EspacioMarino del Empordà”, (7) maritime part of the SCI, SAC and SPA of the Aiguamolls de l’Empordà; and (8) SCI, SPA and SAC “Litoral del Baix Empordà”.
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Areas
CCWF: Zone of high potential for the development of offshore energy ZAPER LEBA-1
(it overlaps with a zone of high potential for the conservation of Biodiversity according to
https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/cartografia-y-sig/ide/descargas/costas-medio-marino/poem.html)
ZAPBD: zone of high potential for the conservation of Biodiversity (Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico)
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8: Natura 2000 areas
5: Royal Decree declaring the Mediterranean Sea Cetacean Migration Corridor a Protected Marine Area. Its inclusion in the List of Specially Protected Areas of Importance for the Mediterranean (ZEPIM), in the framework of the Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution (Barcelona Convention), is proposed.
9 & 10: Areas closed to trawl fisheries. Orden APA/753/2020, de 31 de julio, por la que se modifica el Anexo III de la Orden APA/423/2020, de 18 de mayo, por la que se establece un plan de gestión para la conservación de los recursos pesqueros demersales en el mar Mediterráneo.
SAC: Natura 2000 Special Areas of Conservation; SCI: Natura 2000 Sites of Community Importance; SPA: Natura 2000 Special Protection Areas; SPAMI: Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance. Note: All boundary lines are approximate and for illustration purposes only.
