Seal Conservation Areas - Common or Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina)
In response to local declines in common seal numbers, the Scottish Government introduced conservation orders under the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 to provide additional protection on a precautionary basis for vulnerable local populations of common seals. In September 2004, the Conservation of Seals (Scotland) Order 2004 to cover common and grey seals in the Moray Firth, and in March 2007, the Conservation of Seals (Scotland) Order 2007 to cover common seals only in the Northern Isles and Firth of Tay.
The Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 introduces provisions for existing orders to continue, and for new ones to be introduced administratively as Seal Conservation Areas. The repeal of the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 on 31st January 2011 means that the existing orders will cease if not replaced by Seal Conservation Areas. The Scottish Government intends therefore to continue these existing orders in the form of Seal Conservation Areas from 1 February 2010.
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Citation proposal
Marine Scotland (Scottish Government). Seal Conservation Areas - Common or Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina). https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1093 |
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2010-02-01
- Identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1093
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Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units , Protected sites
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use limitation
- The following attribution statement must be used: Contains Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Distance
- 100 m
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Environment
- Oceans
- Geographic identifier
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SCT
- Date ( Publication )
- 2007-12-13
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS84
- Distribution format
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- ()
- ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )
- OnLine resource
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area_management_seal_conservation_areas
area_management_seal_conservation_areas
- OnLine resource
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area_management_seal_conservation_areas
area_management_seal_conservation_areas
- OnLine resource
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area_management_seal_conservation_areas
Download data as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
- Areas of seal conservation established under the Conservation of Seals (Scotland) Order 2007 were digitized by Marine Scotland for use in the 2011 Marine Atlas.
Metadata
- File identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1093 XML
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2018-06-22
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0