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They have updated their web site that provides an interactive mapping portal for mapping all European seabed habitats - MESH.
The recent updates to the Mapping European Seabed Habitats (MESH) interactive mapping portal include: www.searchMESH.net/webGIS.
This portal allows you to view, query, search and download seabed habitat data for the waters of Belgium*, France, Ireland, Netherlands*, Portugal (including Azores), Spain and UK. The webGIS works in conjunction with International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Spatial Facility, which contains a metadata catalogue that describes the mapping data.
It is still maintained by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee but is now funded by European Regional Development Fund – Atlantic Area through the MESH Atlantic project.
More details are provided below for those who are interested. Further data updates will occur in 2013; I will notify you again when the composite EUNIS habitats layer has its next major update. We hope that you continue to use and benefit from the data. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch through info@searchMESH.net.