Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This dataset shows the distribution of Areas of Particular Environmental Interest (APEI), provisionally adopted by the ISA in 2013 in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. The Clarion–Clipperton fracture zone (CCZ) in the equatorial North Pacific is a focal area for mining interests, and is located beyond national jurisdictions. APEIs are a system of deep-sea marine protected areas to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem function in an abyssal Pacific region targeted for nodule mining.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: International Seabed Authority (2012). Areas of Particular Environmental Interest (APEI) as per Decision of the Council relating to an environmental management plan for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (ISBA/18/C22). URL: https://www.isa.org.jm
Other cited references:
Wedding LM, Friedlander AM, Kittinger JN, Watling L, Gaines SD, Bennett M, Hardy SM, Smith CR (2013). From principles to practice: a spatial approach to systematic conservation planning in the deep sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280. 20131684. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1684