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 of both the "Scottish marine area" defined in the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 and "Scottish inshore region" defined in the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.


Marine planning will take place at a local level within these regions, where regional marine planning will be delegated to Marine Planning Partnerships (MPPs).


In August 2018, the Scottish Marine Regions were added to the Scottish Register of Geographic Codes as entity S41.

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Alternate title

Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015
Date ()
2022-12-05
Identifier

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1609
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate

Mailpoint 11, Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

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Edinburgh

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EH6 6QQ

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United Kingdom
+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate

Mailpoint 11, Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

 ,

Edinburgh

 ,

EH6 6QQ

 ,

United Kingdom
+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

 -

Marine Directorate

Mailpoint 11, Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

 ,

Edinburgh

 ,

EH6 6QQ

 ,

United Kingdom
+44 (0)300 244 4000
Maintenance and update frequency
not planned
Keywords
SeaDatanet Parameter Disciplines
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

  • Administrative units

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Access constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints

no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Open Government Licence
Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Distance
20  m
Metadata language
eng (en)
Topic category
  • Planning cadastre
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier

There is no appropriate value

Date ()
2010-01-01

Reference system identifier

EPSG

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WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
Distribution format
OnLine resource
administrative_units_scottish_marine_regions (

OGC:WFS

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OnLine resource
administrative_units_scottish_marine_regions (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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OnLine resource
Download Scottish Marine Regions as zipped shapefile on WGS1984 datum (

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

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OnLine resource
The Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015 (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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Legislation.gov.uk - Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015

OnLine resource
Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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Legislation.gov.uk - Marine (Scotland) Act 2010

OnLine resource
Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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Legislation.gov.uk - Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009

OnLine resource
MS Maps Layer 765 (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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View layer on MS Maps

Scope
dataset
Statement

Coordinates digitised from the Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015 and Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundary Order 1999. Territorial seas (12M limit) retrieved from UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) INSPIRE service on 20170925. High water line derived from Ordnance Survey BoundaryLine version 2017/5. All coordinates and data on OSGB1936 datum or British National Grid projection were transformed to WGS1984 using OSTN15 grid (EPSG:7709). All line joins are loxodromic except where described in legislation as shortest planar distance on British National Grid projection. 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. Data confirmed as of 05/12/2022.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1609
Metadata language
eng (en)
Resource Type
dataset
Date stamp
2023-09-12
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.2
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate
+44 (0)300 244 4000
 
 

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