EEMM_ANGIOSPERMAS_LEBA_TRINEO_FOTO_VIDEO

The information contained in this data set corresponds to the dragged video transects made in areas of sea angiosperm meadows in the Levantine-Balearic demarcation whose purpose has been to provide knowledge about their distribution and lower/deep limits, all within the framework of the Marine Strategies project. The data were collected in the BAHIPAL, ACHOGRASS, IBGRASS, CHEGRASS, ANDAGRASS and CATGRASS campaigns carried out between October 2020 and September 2023 in Mallorca, Murcia, Ibiza-Formentera, Menorca, Valencia, Andalusia and Catalonia respectively. This work has been financed thanks to the project ‘Technical Scientific Advice for the Protection of the Marine Environment: Evaluation and Monitoring of Marine Strategies, Monitoring of Protected Marine Areas of State Competence (2018-2024)’. Marine Strategies are the marine environmental planning instrument created under Directive 2008/56/EC (as amended by Directive 2017/845) establishing a framework for Community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive), and have as their main objective the achievement of the Good Environmental Status (GES) of our seas. The 11 Good Environmental Status descriptors form the basis for the description and determination of good environmental status of the marine environment. They are established by the Directive in its Annex I. The marine assessment areas are located within the Marine Reporting Units defined in the framework of the Marine Strategies of Spain, these Marine Reporting Units being the units used for notification to the European Commission (MRU).