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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 by the owners/occupiers/agents of salmon fisheries) and for annual salmon stock assessment under the Salmon Conservation (Scotland) Regulations.


District boundaries were interpreted from the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Acts 1862 - 1868, and are based on Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) river catchments and licensed Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) 1:50,000 data. Boundaries and attributes were updated in 2019 and no further boundary or attribute changes have been required.


Salmon Fishery Districts are available to view as a layer on the Marine Scotland Open Data Network – see Marine Scotland Information pages for Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing at https://marine.gov.scot/themes/salmon-sea-trout-fishing. Boundaries were re-projected from British National Grid (BNG) to WGS84 Web Mercator before upload to Marine Scotland MAPS NMPi.


As the layer was derived by the Scottish Government from a licensed dataset, it is not downloadable or routinely available. It can be shared on request if the user provides evidence that they hold a licence from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) for the 1:50,000 Digital Terrain Model (DTM).

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Alternate title

Scottish Salmon Fishery Districts

Date ()
2023-04-28
Identifier

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12460

 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

-

Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

-

Marine Directorate


1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)


 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)


Inverdee

,
 

Scottish Government

-

Marine Directorate


1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown
Keywords
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Administrative units

SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups
  • Fisheries

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Use constraints

Derived from licensed data


Maps containing the salmon fishery statistical district boundaries require acknowledgement of SEPA and CEH: 'District boundaries derived from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) river catchment data'; '© Scottish Government. Based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, © NERC (CEH)' (preceded if appropriate by 'Some features of this map are'); and 'Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]'.

Access constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints

public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive

Distance
500  http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
Metadata language
eng (en)
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Environment
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Geographic identifier

There is no appropriate value

Date ()
2010-01-01

Begin date
2009-01-15
End date
2023-10-31
Reference system identifier

OGP

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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700

Distribution format
OnLine resource
area_management_salmon_fishery_districts (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

)
OnLine resource
area_management_salmon_fishery_districts (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

)
Scope
dataset
Statement

Salmon Fishery District boundaries were derived by Scottish Government Marine Scotland from 1:50,000 river catchment boundaries which were created by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) from the Institute of Hydrology (now the Centre for Environment and Hydrology (CEH)) 1:50,000 Digital Terrain Model (DTM) data. SEPA catchment boundaries were combined into fishery districts in GIS by interpreting the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868, with some input from District Salmon Fishery Boards. Boundaries between districts were improved with additional naming in 2016 to support the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Regulations.


The 1:50,000 scale of Salmon Fishery District boundaries means that they are suitable for mapping but may not be sufficiently accurate to produce exact GIS selections from, or overlaps with, other datasets.


Maps containing Salmon Fishery District boundaries require Crown copyright and acknowledgement of SEPA and CEH: 'District boundaries derived from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) 1:50,000 river catchment data, based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, © NERC (CEH)' (preceded if appropriate by 'Some features of this map are'); and 'Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]'.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12460
Metadata language
eng (en)
Resource Type
dataset
Date stamp
2023-10-31
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.2

 

Scottish Government (Marine Scotland)


+44 (0)300 244 4000
 
 

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