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 introduction means: It is an offence to kill or injure a seal except under licence or for welfare reasons, outlawing unregulated seal shooting that was permitted under previous legislation A number of seal conservation areas around Scotland will begin to be introduced, designed to protect vulnerable, declining common seal populations A new seal licensing system, providing a well regulated and monitored context for seal management in Scotland has been introduced. Seal Management Areas are: East Coast, Moray Firth, Orkney and North Coast, Shetland, South West Scotland, West Scotland, Western Isles.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2021-06-02
- Identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1190
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not Planned
- Keywords
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
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Seal mortality
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 100 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Extent
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There is no appropriate value
SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 2009-11-04
- End
- 2021-06-02 After
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- ogc / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://marinescotland.atkinsgeospatial.com/nmpi/default.aspx?layers=115 OGC:WFS
https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities area_management_seal_management_areas
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities area_management_seal_management_areas
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:area_management_seal_management_areas&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:4326
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Conformity
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for
the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Degree
- false
- Statement
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Seal management areas were provided by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)
Metadata
- File identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1190 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-15T12:21:05
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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Marine Directorate
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Voice
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+44 (0)300 244 4000
- Electronic mail address
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marine.gis@gov.sco marine.gis@gov.scot
- Role
- Point of contact