Aquaculture Disease Management Areas

Management Areas were established in the Final Report of the Joint Government/Industry Working Group on Infectious Salmon Anaemia in January 2000, based on tidal excursions around active farms. Farms with overlapping tidal excursions will usually be within the same management area.

Recommendations include that all sites within the same management area follow an acceptable stocking strategy (see figure 10.1 in Code of Practice) such that fallowing within a management area is synchronised. Fish farmers are encouraged to look carefully at the areas before stocking sites. New sites that would have no effect on management areas or are in management areas of their own pose less of a risk to the spread of disease than those which bridge management areas.

Stocking a previously unused site that may bridge management areas should be avoided. Fish Farmers should consider not restocking a site if it would create a "fire break" and split one of the larger management areas into two smaller areas.

The Management Area Maps will be updated when a change in site use leads to a significant change a management area but if you require a map showing the effect of stocking or inactivating a specific site please contact the Duty Inspector at the Fish Health Inspectorate (FHI)

 
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Marine Scotland (Scottish Government). Aquaculture Disease Management Areas. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1001

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Date ( Revision )
2016-12-05
Identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1001

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quarterly Quarterly
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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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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50  m
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Planning cadastre
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
The entire body of water between the bed and the atmosphere.

 

Date ( Revision )
2010-01-01

Reference system identifier
EPSG / National Grid of Great Britain (ESPG:27700)
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

OnLine resource
Disease management areas information page  
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aquaculture_disease_management  

aquaculture_disease_management

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aquaculture_disease_management  

aquaculture_disease_management

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Aquaculture disease management (shapefile)  

Download aquaculture disease management areas as a zipped shapefile on British National Grid

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dataset Dataset
Statement
Polygons created from separation distances around active sea water aquaculture sites taking into account tidal excursions and other epidemiological risk factors as detailed in the Final Report of the Joint Government/Industry Working Group on Infectious Salmon Anaemia in January 2000 (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Uploads/Documents/JGIWGReport.pdf).

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Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1001   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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