• Services
  • Projects
  • Publications
    • Reports
    • Scientific publications
  • About us
  • Coworkers
  • Work with us
  • Contact
  • Swedish
  • English

AquaBiota

- part of the NIRAS group

  • About us
  • Coworkers
  • Work with us
  • Contact
  • Swedish
  • English
  • Services
  • Projects
  • Publications
    • Reports
    • Scientific publications

Municipal marine spatial planning in Kävlinge

2018-05-17 AquaBiota

On behalf of Kävlinge, AquaBiota has produced background data for planning purposes as part of a regional marine spatial planning project in Öresund.

Usage of the sea is increasing. Fishing, recreation, transports and energy production need to share a limited space already occupied with marine habitats and organisms. Marine spatial planning aims for long term sustainable use of our seas by analysing and organize appropriate usage of different sea areas in a spatial perspective.

The coastline of Kävlinge is fairly undeveloped, but in some areas constructions, infrastructure and recreational activities could affect shallow water species and habitats. Since Kävlinge is situated by Öresund, where trawling is prohibited, the influence of commercial fishing on seafloor habitats is most likely negligible.

In some cases, marine protected areas are useful to avoid conflicts between different interests and secure conservation values. The current marine protected areas within the sea area of Kävlinge include a majority of coastal species and habitats in need of protection, but offshore areas are not represented. On a regional level, an overview of the protection of important offshore species and habitats would be appropriate in order to secure their survival.

The marine environment in Kävlinge

Kävlinge is situated on the west coast of Scania, bordering to Landskrona in the north and Lomma in the south. Coastal and sea areas of the municipality is a mixture of shallow brackish water environments and deeper, more saline areas dominated by soft substrates, and hard substrates both offshore and along parts of the coast. In nearshore areas there are eelgrass meadows and offshore there are areas with high conservation values, such as suitable habitats for kelp and the amphipod Haploops tenuis, and soft substrates with high diversity of benthic fauna.

Report (in Swedish):
Trigal, C., Fyhr, F. och Tano, S. 2017: Underlag till havsplanering som en del av översiktsplanen i Kävlinge. AquaBiota Report 2017:09. 80 p

Filed Under: Other

Contact


Martin Isæus
Project director
MD, PhD Marine ecology
martin.isaeus@niras.se

News

AquaBiota – part of the NIRAS group

Sep 01

September 1st, AquaBiota joined the NIRAS group! … Read more »

AquaBiota Gasell 2022

Aug 30

AquaBiota has been appointed as a Gasell Company … Read more »

‘Mixed species groups in mammals’, one of 16 classic papers celebrating 50 years of Mammal Review

Dec 16

A paper by Eva Isaeus and others is featured in a … Read more »

Application and EIA for Storgrundet announced

Dec 16

Earlier this year, wpd submitted an application to … Read more »

Webinars about large-scale sustainable offshore wind power

Dec 15

During November and December, AquaBiota conducted … Read more »

New paper on trend correlations for coastal eutrophication

Mar 31

Trend correlations for coastal eutrophication and … Read more »

See all posts »

Requests

mils.anbud@niras.se

 

AquaBiota Water Research ABWR AB

c/o NIRAS
Hantverkargatan 11B
112 21 Stockholm

Copyright © 2025 AquaBiota · An iGoMoon Website · Log in

We use cookies on this website to gather information how you use the website so we can improve the experience for you. By continuing to use our services, you are giving us your consent to use cookies.