Scottish Inshore Fishery Groups (April 2016 onwards)

Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFGs) are bodies that aim to improve the management of Scotland's inshore fisheries (out to six nautical miles) and to give commercial inshore fishermen a strong voice in wider marine management developments.

Originally six pilot IFGs were established in 2009 (covering the Outer Hebrides, the Clyde, the south east of Scotland, the north west, small isles and Mull, and Moray Firth) and each developed an inshore fisheries management plan for its area. This was followed in 2013 by six Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) covering all of the Scottish coast (except Shetland which has its own management arrangements).

The West Coast and North & East Coast RIFGs were established in April 2016 and replace the four IFGs that formerly covered the Scottish mainland coast. This layer shows the RIFG network, which includes the West Coast, North & East Coast and Outer Hebrides RIFGs, along with the Orkney Management Group and Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation.

 
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Scottish Government (2016) . Scottish Inshore Fishery Groups (April 2016 onwards). https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1197

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Date ( Publication )
2016-04-04
Identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1197

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Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups
  • Fisheries
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use limitation
The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Distance
50  m
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Environment
  • Oceans
Geographic identifier
SCT

 

Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

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Reference system identifier
OGP / WGS84
Distribution format
  • OGC:WMC (1.3.0 )

OnLine resource
Marine Scotland WMS  

Marine Scotland WMS

OnLine resource
IFG_2009  

Regional Inshore Fishery Groups

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dataset Dataset
Statement
Created by MS GIS team. Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) areas are derived from the areas defined in the Scottish Marine Regions Order, converted from British National Grid to WGS 1984 using EPSG:1314 transformation, clipped to 6nm from baseline using limits provided by UK Hydrographic Office then coastline erased using Ordnance Survey Meridian 2 coastline (available under OS Open Data Licence).

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File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1197   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

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