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Area Management - Marine conservation orders (MCOs) and fisheries orders in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs)
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 way that furthers the conservation objectives. The EU Habitats Directive requires Special Areas of Conservation (and Special Protection Areas) to be managed in a way that prevents deterioration of the qualifying features. The dataset contains boundaries and measures which are subject to Marine Conservation Orders (MCOs), the Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984 or the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) The following URL provides a link to further information: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/marine-environment/mpanetwork/MPAMGT/
Proposed measures will be available during consultations
Default
- Date ()
- 2016-05-16
- Identifier
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Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1630
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
- asNeeded
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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Protected sites
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
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no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Use constraints
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The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Distance
- 20 m
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Oceans
))
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
/WGS84
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
(1.0
)
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- OnLine resource
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Scottish Government website: Marine protected areas management
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
)
- OnLine resource
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area_management_marine_conservation_orders
(
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
)Current measures (WMS)
- OnLine resource
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area_management_marine_conservation_orders
(
OGC:WFS
)Current measures (WFS)
- OnLine resource
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area_management_marine_conservation_orders_proposed
(
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
)Proposed measures (WMS)
- OnLine resource
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area_management_marine_conservation_orders_proposed
(
OGC:WFS
)Proposed measures (WFS)
- OnLine resource
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area_management_marine_conservation_orders
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download
)Download current measures as zipped shapefile on WGS datum
- OnLine resource
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area_management_marine_conservation_orders_proposed
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download
)Download proposed measures as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum
- Scope
- dataset
- Statement
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The boundaries of the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) were received from the Government advisor, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). Any data using British National Grid (EPSG:27700) was transformed to WGS84 (ESPG:4326) using EPSG:1314 transformation. The boundary of the Loch Sunart to Sound of Jura MPA was modified to include the Firth of Lorn SAC and to include harbour areas of Kilchoan and Craignure to mean low water spring (MLWS). The boundary of Lochs Duish, Long and Alsh MPA was modified to include the south extent of the Lochs Duish, Long and Alsh SAC along MLWS. Coastlines (mean high water spring, MHWS, or mean low water spring) are derived from Ordnance Survey MasterMap. Management measures and their boundaries were created by the Marine Conservation team following consultations.
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-09-12
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.2