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Area Management - Scottish Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFGs)
Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFGs) are bodies that aim to improve the management of Scotland's inshore fisheries (out to twelve nautical miles) and to give commercial inshore fishermen a strong voice in wider marine management developments.
Originally six pilot IFGs were established in 2009 (covering the Outer Hebrides, the Clyde, the south east of Scotland, the north west, small isles and Mull, and Moray Firth) and each developed an inshore fisheries management plan for its area. This was followed in 2013 by six Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) covering all of the Scottish coast (except Shetland which has its own management arrangements).
The West Coast and North & East Coast RIFGs were established in April 2016 and replace the four IFGs that formerly covered the Scottish mainland coast. This layer shows the RIFG network, which includes the West Coast, North & East Coast and Outer Hebrides RIFGs, along with the Orkney Management Group and Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation. In 2020, the scope of RIFGs was extended to the 12NM limit as part of the Future Fisheries Management (FFM) policy.
A new structure for the RIFG network was established in January 2023 which subdivides the west coast into two sections as well as taking a new approach to the Northern Isles.
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- Date ()
- 2023-05-10
- Identifier
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Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1197
Scottish Government
-Marine Directorate
Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay
,Edinburgh
,EH6 6QQ
,United Kingdom
Scottish Government
-Marine Directorate
Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay
,Edinburgh
,EH6 6QQ
,United Kingdom
Scottish Government
-Marine Directorate
Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay
,Edinburgh
,EH6 6QQ
,United Kingdom
Scottish Government
-Marine Directorate
Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay
,Edinburgh
,EH6 6QQ
,United Kingdom
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Keywords
- SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups
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Fisheries
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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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- Use constraints
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The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
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no limitations to public access
- Distance
- 10000 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Geographic identifier
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The correct value is not known to, and not computable by, the sender of this data. However, a correct value probably exists.
- Date ()
- 2010-01-01
- Begin date
- 2013-06-01
- End date
- 2015-07-20
- Reference system identifier
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OGP
/urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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area_management_inshore_fisheries_groups
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OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
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- OnLine resource
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area_management_inshore_fisheries_groups
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OGC:WFS
)
- OnLine resource
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Download as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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- OnLine resource
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View on Marine Scotland Maps
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
- Medium note
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GIS - - Shapefile
- Scope
- dataset
- Statement
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Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) areas are derived from the areas defined in the Scottish Marine Regions Order. Some SMRs were merged to create RIFG boundaries. For the purposes of the Solway, the Scottish adjacent waters boundary was extended to the nearest point of the common boundary between Scotland and England as recorded on OS Boundary Line; this section of the line is for illustrative purposes only and does not describe a legal boundary. For standardisation, attributes use S57 vocabulary (see s-57.com) with additional fields. Area values calculated on ETRS89 / LAEA Europe (EPSG:3035) as integers.
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-15
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.2