Table 2.
Number of MPAs by country. Also provided are the submerged (marine) areas within the MPAs in each country, terrestrial areas within the MPAs, their protection levels and their jurisdictional locations by country. “Percentage terrestrial” refers to the ratio of terrestrial to submerged marine area with the MPAs by country
| Country | Total no. of MPAs | Marine vs. terrestrial area coverage | Protection level | EEZa | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submerged area | Terrestrial area | Percentage terrestrial | Limited-take (LT) | No-take | Mixed-use (MU) | LT | MU | ||
| Albania | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | ||||||
| Algeria | 1 | 27.0 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1 | ||||
| Croatia | 7 | 458.1 | 166.2 | 36.3 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Cyprus | 1 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 18.2 | 1 | ||||
| France | 11 | 964.7 | 84.1 | 8.7 | 1 | 2 | 8 | ||
| Greece | 3 | 2139.2 | 81.0 | 3.8 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Israel | 6 | 19.7 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Italy | 34 | 10235.2 | 458.7 | 4.5 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 3 | |
| Lebanon | 1 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 7.5 | 1 | ||||
| Malta | 5 | 190.6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Monaco | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| Montenegro | 1 | 26.0 | 94.0 | 361.5 | 1 | ||||
| Morocco | 1 | 196.0 | 290.0 | 148.0 | 1 | ||||
| Slovenia | 3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 38.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Spain | 26 | 1444.2 | 696.6 | 48.2 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 1 | |
| Syria | 3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Tunisia | 2 | 51.5 | 18.5 | 35.9 | 2 | ||||
| Turkey | 7 | 1709.4 | 2169.0 | 126.9 | 5 | 2 | |||
| UK | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Italy/France/Monaco | 1 | 87500.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 117 | 105023.4 | 4060.7 | 3.9 | 40 | 8 | 69 | 2 | 4 |
aBeyond 12 nm territorial sea of each country; the EEZ is generally 200 nm from each countries’ coastline. None of the six MPAs past the territorial limits were no-take reserves