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.

 
Citation proposal
Marine Scotland (Scottish Government). Seal Management Areas. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1190

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Date ( Creation )
2011-01-31
Identifier

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1190

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Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

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no limitations to public access

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Open Government Licence ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ )

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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.

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500  m
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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SCT

 

Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

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OGP

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OnLine resource
National Marine Plan Interactive (NMPi) WMS Get Capabilities  
OnLine resource
Marine Scotland seal licensing information  
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dataset Dataset
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Information provided by Marine Scotland > Marine Planning and Policy > Marine Environment Branch.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1190   XML
Metadata language
eng English
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-06-22
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

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