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Area Management - Ports and harbours - Statutory harbour limit boundaries
Indicative polygons showing the statutory limits of harbour authorities around Scotland, including competent harbour authorities with responsibilities under the Pilotage Act... -
Area Management - Marine conservation orders (MCOs) and fisheries orders in...
Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designated under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 or the UK Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. They have to be managed in a... -
Administrative Units - Scottish Marine Regions (SMRs)
The Scottish Marine Regions are 11 areas established for the purposes of regional marine planning, defined by The Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015. These regions are sub-areas... -
Area management - dredge spoil deposit sites (open, closed, and disused)
Locations of licensed dredge spoil deposit sites in Scotland, indicated by polygons. The spoil is usually as a result of navigational dredging (deepening of navigation channels)... -
Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted...
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts... -
Area Management - Standing approvals for use of chemical dispersants in...
Areas where standing approvals permit the application of a limited quantity of chemical dispersants, without the permission of Marine Scotland, to respond to an oil spill. Two... -
Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms
Category 1, 2 and 3 areas are designated on the basis of Marine Scotland predictive models to estimate environmental sensitivity of sea lochs. The maps describe the Category 1,... -
Area Management - Salmon Stock Assessment Areas
Salmon Stock Assessment Areas boundaries, used by Scottish Government Marine Scotland to demarcate rivers where salmon stocks are assessed under the Salmon Conservation... -
Area Management - Salmon Fishery Districts
Salmon Fishery District boundaries, used by Scottish Government Marine Scotland for reporting annual salmon catch statistics (which are obtained from salmon catch returns made... -
Area Management - Marine Licensing - Areas where approval is needed to...
The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Scottish Offshore Region) Order 2011 requires that no deposit of marine chemical and marine oil treatment substances is made in an... -
Area Management - Several and Regulatory Orders for Shellfish under section...
Regulating and Several Orders are granted by the Scottish Ministers under the terms of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (the 1967 Act), as amended, in respect of the... -
Area management - King scallop assessment areas in Scotland
For the purposes of Marine Scotland Science’s (MSS) stock assessments, the king scallop (Pecten maximus) grounds around Scotland are divided into assessment areas (previously... -
Area Management - Scottish Assessment areas - Scottish Marine Regions and...
The 21 Scottish marine regions and offshore marine regions are used for state of the sea assessments. These areas consolidate the existing statutory Scottish Marine Regions with... -
Area Management - Scottish Assessment Areas - Scottish Sea Areas (Clean and...
The 15 Scottish sea areas are based on areas previously adopted for certain environmental monitoring programmes. The data from these 15 areas can be presented regionally and... -
Area management - crab and lobster fishery assessment areas in Scotland
For assessment purposes, the Scottish creel fishing grounds are divided into 12 assessment areas. Some Scottish assessment areas extend outside Scottish Territorial Waters. On... -
Area Management - Seal Licensing - Seal Management Areas
On 31 January 2011, Part 6 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force. Part 6 seeks to balance seal conservation with sustainable fisheries and aquaculture and its... -
Area Management - Marine - Local Coastal Partnerships
The Scottish Coastal Forum was formed in 1996 to encourage debate at national level on coastal issues. Its members advise Marine Scotland, from an operational perspective, on... -
Area Management - Seal Licensing - Seal Conservation Areas
In response to local declines in seal numbers, the Scottish Government introduced conservation orders under the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 to provide additional protection... -
Aquaculture Disease Management Areas
Management Areas were established in the Final Report of the Joint Government/Industry Working Group on Infectious Salmon Anaemia in January 2000, based on tidal excursions... -
TellMeScotland API
Tell Me Scotland is a portal for accessing public information notices issued by local authorities across Scotland. The site allows users to: Search for public notices such as...